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Kawaguchi, Kigai
(b Wakayama Prefect., 10 Nov 1892; d Tokyo, 5 June 1966). Japanese painter. He started painting while at school and in 1912 went to Tokyo to study at the Taiheiyo Gakkai Kenkyujo. In 1917 he first showed work at the exhibition of the Nikakai. During this period he modelled himself on Sotaro Yasui. From 1920 to 1923 and 1924 to 1929 he lived in France: during the first stay he made many copies of works by Domenico Tintoretto and Titian; on the second occasion he studied under André Lhôte and Fernand Léger, his work tending towards that of Auguste Renoir and Marc Chagall. His fantastic and Surrealist pre-war works, for example Girl and Shells (1934; Wakayama, Prefect. Mus. Mod. A.), were attempts to create an individual style from the influences under which he had come during his studies in France. After World War II his work moved towards abstraction (e.g. Strange Shadow, 1953; Tokyo, N. Mus. Mod. A.), as is clear from his role in the formation of the Japanese Abstract Art Club in 1953, and he created a form of abstract painting in the manner of Léger and Paul Klee.
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