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Ceramic sculpture

by Osamu Suzuki (1926 – 2001)

Japan, circa 1960

Height: 45.5 cm – Width: 60.5 cm

A ceramic sculpture mounted on a wood panel covered with black canvas

Signed: Su (lower right) and Suzuki Osamu saku (made by Suzuki Osamu) with seal (on the reverse)

Osamu Suzuki was born in Kyoto and studied pottery with his father, Ugenji Suzuki, a master potter of the renowned Eiraku studio.

In 1948 along with two other like-minded potters Kazuo Yagi (1918-1979) and Hikaru Yamada (1923-2001), he co-founded the influential avant-garde ceramic group, Sōdeisha (Clay Association), a name which refers to a Chinese term meaning ‘glazing flaw’.