Kazuo Shiraga: Wrestling With Painting

This 1962 oil on canvas by the Gutai master Kazuo Shiraga, which has never come up for sale before, is a performance painting, a hand-to-hand combat with color. Kazuo Shiraga (1924-2008), T. 34 (No. 50), signed oil on canvas dated "1962", 80 x 116 cm/31.49 x 45.66 in.Estimate: €500,000/800,000 The gaze cannot find a focal point in this work where flat colors are suddenly cut off as if torn by an accumulation of matter. The paint swirls and twists in wild bursts, seemingly driven by the violence and raw power that put it on the canvas. "I want to paint as if