OGUISS Takanori

Takanori OGUISS

Lithography.

Signed in pencil.

Signed in pencil.
Made in 1977.

Dimensions without margins: 45 x 55 cm.

Draw at 175 + + 25EA + HC.

Born in Inazawa, Japan, Takanori Oguiss, son of a landowner in the Nagoya region, after studying at the Beaux-Arts in Tokyo, arrives in Paris, like a whole group of Japanese painters, like his friends Foujita and Inokuma, or Sadami Yokote, in 1927.

Takanori Oguiss settled in the Montparnasse district, frequented the painters of La Ruche, and was particularly impressed by the paintings of Maurice Utrillo. In the 1930s, he occupied a workshop at the foot of the Butte Montmartre, rue Ordener, not far from his friends Inokuma and Fujita.

After a return to Japan, on the orders of the French government of Vichy (where he was designated during the Second World War as a painter of the Japanese armies but where he managed to serve only a few weeks over the two and a half years he he spends there; the rest of the time, he is in Inazawa, Nagoya, where he paints), Takanori Oguiss established himself in 1948 definitively in France, painting in bright colors the old picturesque districts, the old shops, haberdashery or stationery stores, merchants of wines and liqueurs, wood and coals, and flower markets. In 1951 he wrote and illustrated Nouvelles de Paris, published by Maïnichi. He also traveled to Amsterdam, Ghent, Antwerp and Venice, composing colorful works with unusual framing.

His last exhibition during his lifetime took place at the Saint-Denis museum in 1986. He died the same year and was buried in the Montmartre cemetery (12th division). A museum is dedicated to him in the Japanese city of Inazawa where his workshop in the city of Montmartre-aux-artistes has been reconstructed. (Source: wikipedia).