Artwork by student sells for $11,340 at Christie's
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- 21 Sep 2022
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A folding screen with a painting created by a Japanese student of a Tokyo University of the Arts graduate school fetched $11,340 at an auction held in New York by Christie’s on Tuesday.
Kenta Takahashi, 26, described a scene in a city as a work of modern art using techniques of traditional Japanese painting.
It is believed to be unprecedented for Christie’s to have auctioned a work by a student in New York, an official of the auction house said.
Highly acclaimed for representing the fusion of techniques of traditional Japanese painting and modern art, Takahashi’s work, A Piece of the City,” created last year, was put up for auction as part of a series of Japanese and Korean artworks including antiques.
Using mineral pigments, made of powdered minerals and traditionally used in Japanese-style paintings, as well as natural glue, Takahashi drew the street art-style painting on the folding screen covered with silver leaf.
Takahashi, who grew up in the city of Miyoshi, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, studied under a Japanese painting teacher for three years at the art course of a prefectural high school in Aichi and brushed up his skills at Tokyo University of the Arts.
“Art has a role to express the present in history for the future. Cities are symbolic in that they represent the times,” he said. Read More...
