Yūkei Teshima 手島 右卿 (1901- 1987, Japan) "i Give You My Heart" Indian Ink. Before 1969

Wooden frame (wear from use). Frame dimensions: 33 x 31 cm. Drawing dimensions: 21 x 19.5 cm. Stamp. Titled on the back. Provenance: exhibited at the Yuhkei and his School exhibition in Belgium in September 1969. The photographs were taken with the glass, hence some reflections.
Yūkei Teshima 手島 右卿 (1901- 1987) born November 13, 1901 in Aki, Kōchi Prefecture and died March 27, 1987 in Tokyo, was a Japanese painter and calligrapher. Yūkei Tejima was an important painting teacher and representative of modern painting in Japan after the Second World War. He studied with Tenrai Hidai (1872-1939), a calligrapher who worked in the Meiji style. He was a founding member of the Dokuritsu Shodō-kai (de) artist association (Dokuritsu Shojin-dan from 1967) as its president and served there until his death in January 1987. Tejima's works were part of the major traveling exhibition "Japanese Calligraphy" presented in 1955 in various European countries. He participated in the 4th Sao Paulo Biennial in 1957. Several of his works were presented at documenta II in 1959 in Kassel. The exhibition Yuhkei and his School was presented in Belgium in September 1969, in France in September 1975, in the United States in May 1982 and at the Palace of the Revolution in Beijing in May 1985. In March 1989, two years after his death, the Dokuritsu Shojindan organized a major retrospective (en) devoted to his work and in September 1997 an epitaph bearing the sho calligraphy of Yūkei Tejimas was unveiled at Koyasan (Mount Kōya) in Wakayama Prefecture.