25894 Kanjiro Kawai Colored Bowl

Height 7.6cm
Diameter 15.4cm

Together with such great masters as Muneyoshi Yanagi and Shoji Hamada, who are representative of the Japanese folk art world, and such great masters as Kenkichi Tomimoto and Tatsuaki Kuroda, who are representative of modern Japanese crafts, Kawai Kanjiro is a master of Japanese folk art who has won worldwide acclaim for pioneering new frontiers in modern ceramics with his profound yet simple style that pursues "beauty of utility," and winning the Grand Prize at the Milan International Exhibition.

Inspired by the action paintings developed by Jackson Pollock in the 1950s, Kanjiro skillfully incorporated the masterpiece series "Three Color Glazes" into his own ceramics, which are symbolic of Kanjiro Kawai's artistry, created using an unprecedented technique in which red, green and black glazes were applied with a thick brush rather than applied as usual. The masterpieces of abstract flat jars decorated with "three color glazes" are stored in museums as a legacy for future generations, but Kanjiro also applied the three color glazes to everyday vessels such as bowls, plates, ashtrays and lidded containers, presenting his works to the world with shocking and bold colors on tea utensils such as tea bowls and water jars.
Among the "Sanshoku Uchiyaku" tea bowls, the special piece "Irowan," produced in limited quantities, is a famous bowl left behind by Kawai Kanjiro.

It is a large piece measuring over 15 centimeters in diameter, with wonderful three-color display.