Beyond
"Beyond" by Toko Shinoda exemplifies the artist's mastery of gestural abstraction within the Japanese ink painting tradition, employing spontaneous brushwork and subtle tonal variations across the paper surface. The composition demonstrates Shinoda's characteristic approach of balancing positive and negative space, where the ink marks suggest movement and transcendence while maintaining the meditative qualities inherent to sumi-e practice. By layering the work on board, Shinoda creates a physical presence that invites sustained contemplation of the interplay between restraint and expression.
- Medium
- ink on paper laid down on board
- Location
- Sotheby's, New York, NY
- Spotted At
- Auction House ยท Sotheby'sView on map
๐จ Auction Lot
Contemporary Discoveries Including the Marcel Lehmann Lefranc Collection
February 12, 2025
Estimate: $24,000 to $34,000
Lot 95
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Franz Kline
American ยท b. 1910
Kline's large scale black and white gestural paintings share Shinoda's bold calligraphic brushwork and dramatic tension between ink marks and open negative space, creating a similarly contemplative yet energetic visual rhythm on the picture plane.
Yuichi Inoue
Japanese ยท b. 1916
Inoue worked directly within the Japanese ink and calligraphy tradition, producing abstract gestural compositions with spontaneous brushwork and deep tonal variations that share the same meditative sumi-e sensibility and balance of form and void seen in this piece.
Robert Motherwell
American ยท b. 1915
Motherwell's elegant ink and gestural abstract works demonstrate a refined minimalist aesthetic with lyrical mark making and a strong awareness of negative space that closely parallels Shinoda's approach to movement and transcendence within a spare, contemplative composition.
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