Aldo van Eyck & Juriaan Schrofer - Tajiri. Sculptures: 2 March - 2 April 1960
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Aldo van Eyck & Juriaan Schrofer - Tajiri. Sculptures: 2 March - 2 April 1960 - Amsterdam - Stedelijk Museum - 1960 - 1st edition - [8]; 16 pp - Paper wrappers - 19 x 25 cm. - Design: Peter [= Pieter] Brattinga jr. & Tajiri.
Condition: Good - cover slightly worn, browning. First page vulnerable (almost loose).
Catalogue of an exhibition of work by the American-Dutch sculptor Shinkichi George Tajiri (1923-2009). Illustrated with black and white photos (by Violette Cornelius, Leonard Freed, ATA KANDO, Sabine Weiss, Bram Wisman and Tajiri himself). Text in English. Cat. 232.
Printed by Steendrukkerij De Jong and Co. in Hilversum. It is remarkable that the first names of both Pieter Brattinga and Jurriaan Schrofer contain a typo.
¶ Tajiri was of Japanese descent and was imprisoned in America during World War II. He left the United States in 1948 and came to the Netherlands via Paris (studying with Ossip Zadkine) with the Arnhem sculptress Ferdi Jansen. He exhibited with the Cobra group in the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum in 1949.
