1992, serigraph, pencil signed and numbered to lower margin: 138/150, Blue Harbour, T. Sawada, '92, presented under glass with double mats in a black frame.

Frame dimensions 19 x 34 1/2 in., Sight size 12 x 27 in.

Private Collection, Japan and Florida Private Collection, Japan and Florida

Sawada Tetsuro was born in Hokkaido and lived in Tokyo. He had a seemingly endless fascination with vast skies and bands of layered clouds, which he depicted as lithographs and serigraphs with subtle gradations of colors. He began his career in 1958 with a degree from Musashino University of Fine Arts majoring in Western painting. He spent the late 1960s traveling in North and South America, as well as studying in France and Spain, these travels offering him additional views of the world, and these foreign landscapes and skies were reflected in his artworks. During the next decade, his lithographs and serigraphs gained in popularity among collectors, and in 1980 he won a prize at the Norway International Print Biennale. Sawada’s works reflect a contemporary style all his own, with striking juxtapositions of matte and lustrous colors presented with clean precision and a quiet atmosphere.


Excellent condition; not examined outside of the frame.