Waiting for Spring lithography by Soichi Asegawa

Etching on bfk de rives, signed in pencil and in the board. Artist's proof. Hasegawa shoichi or soichi is a japanese painter of the twentieth century, born in 1929 in yaizu of shizuoka prefecture. Hasegawa shoichi is a mixed-media painter, engraver, draughtsman. Student of the kokuga institute in tokyo and introduced to engraving in stanley william hayter's atelier 17 in paris, where he arrived in 1961. He participated in numerous group exhibitions, especially for engraving: 1962 salon de la jeune peinture in paris, 1963, 1964 salon des réalités nouvelles in paris, 1963, 1965, 1967 biennale internationale de gravure in ljubljana, since 1963 salon de la jeune gravure contemporaine in paris, 1966 biennale internationale de gravure in krakow; in 1968 he won the first prize for engraving at the international exhibition in como, he then obtained many other prizes around the world. He also showed his work in numerous solo exhibitions, including: 1957, 1959, 1961, 1979, 1986 in tokyo; 1964, 1968, 1972, 1978, 1980, 1981 in paris, and in many other cities: stockholm, ljubljana, melbourne, bordeaux, brussels, liège, geneva, strasbourg, frankfurt, stuttgart, london, etc. As an abstract, he synthesizes between far eastern calligraphy, traditional symbolism of shapes and colors, and new western expressions. On colorful "tachist" backgrounds, decorative graphic motifs in the tradition of japanese popular imagery are engraved in white. These works are present in many museums around the world.