News Release
ATZ210421-E_E

April 21, 2021
Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

STEPS AHEAD: Recent Acquisitions Exhibition Period Extended toSeptember 5 (Sun.), 2021
Concurrent Exhibition: Special Section: Sculptures and Prints by Marino Marini
The Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation (Director: Ishibashi Hiroshi), in view of the favorable response to its STEPSAHEAD: Recent Acquisitions exhibition, has extended the exhibition period to September 5 (Sun.), 2021. (Closed May
11 to 14 (Tue. ‒ Fri.) for change of exhibits.) Starting May 15 (Sat.), Special Section: Sculptures and Prints by MarinoMarini will be held concurrently with STEPS AHEAD.

New schedule: February 13 (Sat.), 2021 to September 5 (Sun.), 2021.
Old schedule: February 13 (Sat.), 2021 to May 9 (Sun.), 2021.

What to See by May 9 (Sun.)
1.

STEPS AHEAD Section 13: Henri Matisse’s Drawings presents sixteen works by Matisse: eight of his drawings,
including six new acquisitions being shown for the first time, and eight paintings. As the work of Henri Matisse
constitutes a central part of the Ishibashi Foundation’s collection of modern Western paintings from the first half ofthe twentieth century, this section is a rare opportunity to view a coherent body of his drawings and paintings.

2.

Chinese ceramics and Japanese art from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection
is on display in the Japanese and Asian Gallery. Exhibits include Vase,celadon, decorated with iron brown spots; Longquan ware, Yüan dynasty,
14th century, China (left); Gourd-shaped Vase, decorated with entwining
vine design in overglaze red and green enamels; Jingdezhen ware, Mingdynasty, 1522-1566, China (right)

What to See from May 15 (Sat.) to September 5 (Sun.)1.

A new exhibition in part of the 4F Gallery is Special Section: Sculptures and Prints by Marino
Marini. Marini, one of Italy’s most celebrated twentieth-century sculptors, is famed for hissculptures of horses and riders. The twenty-five works in this exhibition include two sculptures
and, since printmaking was a significant part of his creative practice, twenty-one prints. Theexhibition introduces Marini’s multifaceted work and its fascination. (For details, see the press
release for that exhibition.)
Image: Marino Marini, Rider on a Green Ground, 1957, Lithograph ©SIAE, Roman & JASPAR, Tokyo, 2021 C3493

2.

An exhibit of East Asian and Japanese art featuring National Treasures, Important Cultural Properties, and Important
Art Objects from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection will be held in two display periods. (Japanese and AsianGallery)May 15 (Sat.) ‒ July 25 (Sun.): Detached Segment of Poem Anthology Kokin-wakashu, known as Koya-gire,
Heian period, 11th century, Japan, (Important Cultural Property); Detached Segment of Poem Anthology Iseshu,
known as Ishiyama-gire, Heian period, 12th century, Japan, (Important Art Object), and others.
July 27 (Tue.) ‒ September 5 (Sun.): Yintuoluo, Detached Segment from the Deeds of the ZenMasters, Danxia Burning Buddhist Statues, Yüan dynasty, 14th century, China, (NationalTreasure); Sesshu, Landscape of the Four Seasons, Muromachi period, 15th century, Japan,(Important Cultural Property), and others.
Image: Yintuoluo, Detached Segment from the Deeds of the Zen Masters, Danxia Burning Buddhist Statues, Yüandynasty, (National Treasure).

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STEPS AHEAD: Recent Acquisitions
February 13 (Sat.) ‒ September 5 (Sun.), 2021
＊Extended Exhibition Period

The museum will be closed May 11 - 14 (Tue. ‒ Fri.) for a change of exhibits.
Information on the extended exhibition period, closing days, number of exhibits, andconcurrent exhibitions has been added below.

Elaine de Kooning, Untitled (Bullfight), 1959

©Elaine de Kooning Trust

The Artizon Museum, the Ishibashi Foundation (Director: Ishibashi Hiroshi) is delighted toannounce its upcoming exhibition, STEPS AHEAD: Recent Acquisitions.
STEPS AHEAD introduces the Artizon Museum’s latest additions to the collection. In recentyears, the Ishibashi Foundation has worked to develop its core collection of Impressionist andmodern Japanese paintings more fully while expanding the collection’s breadth to include
works from the early twentieth century to contemporary art especially Abstract paintings, andearly modern Japanese art. Since opening, we have been gradually introducing our newacquisitions, but others remain yet to be displayed: works by the Cubist painters, drawings byHenri Matisse, From or by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy [Box in a Valise] by Marcel
Duchamp, women of Abstract Expressionism, Takiguchi Shuzo and Experimental Workshop,
contemporary Australian paintings, and much more. This exhibition of 201 works, including
92 new acquisitions being exhibited for the first time, and 87 works from the collection ofportrait photographs of artists provides a view of the Artizon Museum’s continuing progress in
expanding the horizons of its collection.** The number of exhibits until May 9 (Sun.) is as stated above.
* From May 15 (Sat.), the exhibition will consist of 193 works including 90 new acquisitions not
displayed before, plus 87 works from the collection of artist portrait photographs. Concurrent
exhibitions will include Special Section: Sculptures and Prints by Marino Marini and National
Treasures, Important Cultural Properties, and Important Art Objects from the Ishibashi Foundation’s
collection of East Asian and Japanese art, exhibited in two display periods. While presenting theArtizon Museum as it is today, continuing to make its steps ahead, these exhibitions introduce thediverse appeal of the collection.

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Exhibition Highlights■Artizon Museum’s new acquisitions displayed comprehensively
This exhibition presents, in one setting, about 90 works from among our new acquisitions being
exhibited for the first time. In recent years, the museum has focused both on building a fuller collectionof modern Japanese and Western paintings and expanding the collection’s scope to include twentiethcentury art, particularly abstract paintings, contemporary art from the postwar period on, and portrait
photographs of artists. Experience the collection as it stands now, on its continuing journey to develop
further with the opening of our new museum.

■Key Points
1. Cubist Painters
We have acquired works by Cubist painters, figures in the most important movement in the earlytwentieth century, which led to the genesis of Abstract art. This exhibition includes works by Picasso,
Braque, and other artists, plus the newly acquired Jean Metzinger’s Still Life on a Pedestal Table (1916)
and Albert Gleizes’s Woman with a Glove (ca. 1922).

2. Postwar Painting and Sculpture
We have enhanced our collection of paintings and three-dimensional works createdafter World War II in Japan, Europe, and the United States. The works on display
include Alexander Calder’s Monocle (1947), Marcel Duchamp s From or by Marcel
Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy [Box in a Valise], (1952) , and Onosato Toshinobu’s
Vermillion Circle (1959), and David Smith’s August Raven (1960).

Onosato Toshinobu, Vermillion Circle, 1959

3. Women of Abstract Expressionism
Abstract Expressionism, which developed in New Yorkafter World War II, is an American avant-garde
movement with international impact. While JacksonPollock and Willem de Kooning are well-known figures,
women artists also made major contributions. Thissection introduces work by Lee Krasner, Elaine deKooning, Helen Frankenthaler, and Joan Mitchell.

Lee Krasner, Moontide, 1961
©2020 Lee Krasner /ARS, New York / JASPAR, Tokyo C3379

4. Contemporary Australian Paintings
The Ishibashi Foundation, in expanding its collection, has taken note of contemporary Australian art inrecent years. Here we introduce representative Aboriginal Art by Australian Aboriginal artists such as,
Nonggirrnga Marawili, George Ward Tjungurrayi, and Ginger Riley Munduwalawala.

5. Portrait Photographs of Artists
The collection includes about 700 vintage portrait photographs of artists in France in thenineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We have also acquired 206 works by Anzai
Shigeo, who photographed the contemporary art scene, in Japan and abroad, from 1970
on, and 236 works by Tom Haar, who captured portraits of Japanese artists working in
New York in the 1970s. This section presents a selection of those works.

Photographer Unknown,Portrait of Henri Matisse(From the Collection of Portrait
Photographs of Artists)

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Exhibition Contents
Recent acquisitions are the focus of this exhibition of works from the Ishibashi
Foundation collection, presented in the following sections:
1. Fujishima Takeji’s, Orientalism and Modern Japanese and Western Painting
2. Cubism
3. Kandinsky and Klee
4. Kuramata Shiro and Tanaka Shintaro
5. Women of Abstract Expressionism
6. Takiguchi Shuzo and Experimental Workshop
7. Marcel Duchamp and New York
8. French Abstract Art after 19459. Gutai Paintings
10. Australian Art: Aboriginal Art
11. Japanese Abstract Paintings
12. The Ishibashi Foundation Collection Ultra High Resolution Scanning Project
13. Henri Matisse’s Drawings (*Some of the works will not be on display after May 15 (Sat.).)14. Portrait Photographs of Artists

Exhibition Overview
Exhibition title:

STEPS AHEAD: Recent Acquisitions

Organizer:

Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

Venue:

6, 5, 4F Galleries

Exhibition period:

February 13 (Sat.) to May 9 (Sun.) September 5(Sun.), 2021

Opening hours:

10:00 ‒ 18:00 (Evening hours, with the museum open until 20:00 on Fridays,
have been suspended until further notice. For the latest information, pleasecheck our website.)* Last admission 30 minutes before closing.

Closed:Mondays (except May 3, and August 9), May 11-14, August 10

Admission (tax included): Online reservation starts from December 13 (Sun.)
Online ticket: 1,200 Yen
Same day ticket (on sale at museum): 1,500 Yen
Students free entry (Advance online booking required.)*Same day tickets on sale at museum are available only for time slots that have
not reached full capacity.
*Advance booking is not required children up to junior high school.
*With your own smartphones and earphones, enjoy the free audio guide bysimply downloading the app.
Curators:

Shimbata Yasuhide, Shimamoto Hideaki, Ueda Anna

Concurrent Exhibition

May15 (Sat.) ‒ September 5 (Sun.), 2021

Special Section Sculptures and Prints by Marino Marini（4F Gallery）
National Treasures, Important Cultural Properties, and Important Art Objects
from the Ishibashi Foundation’s collection of East Asian and Japanese art,
exhibited in two display periods (Japanese and Asian Gallery)
Artizon Museum
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Tel. Domestic: 050-5541-8600 International: 047-316-2772 (Hello Dial)
www.artizon.museum

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Images for Press use* Please include image credits as provided below.
* Do not trim images or overlay them with text.

■Please request the images to our public relations office.
① Elaine de Kooning, Untitled (Bullfight), 1959 ©Elaine de Kooning Trust② Motonaga Sadamasa, Untitled, 1965 ©Motonaga Archive Research Institution Ltd.
③ Fujishima Takeji, Orientalism, 1924
④ Henri Matisse, Jacquy, 1947
⑤ Jean Metzinger, Still Life on the Pedestal Table, 1916
* Works ① and ② are still under copyright, but we have received permission to use them inpublicizing this exhibition. In addition to the name of the artist and the title of the work, youmust include the copyright statement.

① Elaine de Kooning, Untitled (Bullfight), 1959
©Elaine de Kooning Trust③ Fujishima Takeji, Orientalism,1924② Motonaga Sadamasa, Untitled, 1965
© Motonaga Archive Research Institution Ltd.

④ Henri Matisse, Jacquy, 1947

⑤ Jean Metzinger, Still Life on the Pedestal Table, 1916

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■Please confirm the conditions stated below concerning works ⑥, ⑦, and ⑧,
which are still under copyright.
⑥ Marcel Duchamp, From or by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy [Box in a Valise], Series B,
1952, 1946（pencil drawing）*We will issue the copyright statement for use in the media later.
⑦ Joan Miró, Painting, 1952
* We will issue the copyright statement for use in the media later.

⑥ Marcel Duchamp, From or by Marcel⑦ Joan Miró, Painting, 1952 ©Successió Miró / ADAGP, Paris & JASPAR,

Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy [Box in a Valise],
Series B, 1952, 1946（pencil drawing）

Tokyo, 2020 C3379© Association Marcel Duchamp / ADAGP,
Paris & JASPAR, Tokyo, 2020 C3379⑧ The following conditions also apply to use of Lee Krasner’s Moontide, 1961 (p. 2):* We will issue the copyright statement for use in the media later.

Conditions for use*We will lend the image for use in newspapers and magazines, to publicize this exhibition, if
the image as published will be within 50 cm2 in size (with no trimming or overlaid text) andthe accompanying text within 250 words (in case of Japanese). To borrow the image, pleasecontact our public relations office.
*For use in other media, including on the web, please consult our public relations office.

For inquiries about this press release:
Artizon Museum Steps Ahead PR Office (within OHANA, Inc.)
Contacts: Takahashi, Hosokawa, Senō
Tel.: 03-6869-7881 Fax: 03-6869-7801 E-mail: artizon-pr@ohanapr.co.jp
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For inquiries about the Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation:
Artizon Museum Public Relations Department
E-mail: publicity@artizon.jp
1-7-2 Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0031

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