Migishi Setsuko

Price:: 3,200 yen (JPY)

Edited by:: Ichinomiya City Memorial Museum of Setsuko Migishi, Koiso Memorial Museum of Art, and Yokosuka Museum of Art

Language(s):: Japanese

Size:: 245 × 182 × 12 mm, 440 g

Pages:: 168

Binding:: softcover

Release date:: 20260701

ISBN:: 978-4-86831-055-6 C0071

Japanese

A comprehensive look at a woman painter who left an indelible mark on Western-style art in Japan.

Migishi Setsuko’s brief yet searing life with her husband, fellow painter Migishi Kotaro, ended with his untimely death in 1934 when she was twenty-nine. Over the next decades, she weathered solitude and the travails of war before a 1954 trip to France at the age of forty-nine inspired a new and powerful blossoming of colors in her art.

From her early interior scenes to still lifes, later landscapes, and the flowers she portrayed up to her death in 1999 at ninety-four, some seventy major works trace the career of an artist who ever saw hope and truth in art.

Partial contents
Introduction. Life with Migishi Kotaro: 1925–1937
Chapter 1. From Interior Scenes to Still Lifes: 1938–1945
Chapter 2. Pursuit of Still Lifes: 1945–1953
Chapter 3. Move into Landscapes: 1954–1968
Chapter 4. Pursuit of Landscapes I: 1969–1974
Chapter 5. Pursuit of Landscapes II: 1975–1988
Conclusion. In the Company of Flowers: 1989–1999
Also includes a detailed chronology and bibliography based on the latest research