Sekino Jun'ichirō (関野準一郎) (artist 1914 – 1988)
Mother and Child
Drawing
ca 1940
38 in x 30 in (Overall dimensions) drawing with colors
The artist's wife and son in graphite, crayon, watercolor, and pigments on paper from the Sekino Family Collection.
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Sekino Jun'ichirō's art was greatly influenced by that of late 19th and early 20th century European art, especially that of Pierre Bonnard. In an Andon article written by John Fiorillo in November 2017, 'The art of Sekino Jun'ichirō: Expressive realism and geometric formalism' it says: "Comparing Sekino’s early mature woodcuts with works by western artists on similar themes reveals Sekino’s responses to the European avant-garde and brings into focus certain structural components in his compositions. Consider, for example, the French Post-Impressionist painter Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947), whose Nude against the light (1908...) portrays his lifetime companion and model Marthe de Méligny standing in a bathroom that vibrates with light, colour, and pattern. As daylight floods in through a diaphanous curtain, the space vibrates with chromatic modulations of a fluid reality."