Yasui Sotaro

6 August - 25 September 2005

Hours: 9:30a.m.- 5:00 p.m. (9:30 a.m.- 19:00 p.m. on Fridays)
Entry is permitted thirty minutes before the galleries are closed.
Closed: Closed on Mondays

Admission:
Adults: 1000 (800) Yen
Students (College or senior high): 800 (600) Yen
Students (elementary or junior high school): 500 (400) Yen
(Concession for groups or advanced tickets)

Art Lecture
13 August, 2005
14:00- ( at Auditorium)
Theme: The Art of Yasui Sotaro
Speaker: Shimada Yasuhiro
(Chief Curator of the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto)

Yasui Sotaro is said to be one of the painters who have accomplished a monumental work in the history of Japanese modern paintings.　He valued sense of modernity while he was inspired by works of all ages and countries.

Yasui was born in Kyoto and studied painting under Asai Chu. When he was nineteen years old, he moved to Paris to enter an art school where he obtained outstanding results at the school.

One year after he returned to Japan, at the Nika-ten exhibition Yasui exhibited forty-four paintings that he had painted while he stayed in Paris. This enabled Yasui to make his glorious debut. But In spite of his firm reputation, Yasui faced a problem, that is, he began to think what is oil paintings for Japanese people. He spent fifteen years dealing with it earnestly.

We hold this exhibition this year to mark the fifties anniversary of his death. Yasui continued to seek for realism in paintings. You can trace his artistic career and experience it from the present point of view through one hundred and sixteen oil paintings and drawings.

Installation views

　
（left）1st room・（right）2nd room

　
（left）3rd room・（right）4th room