COLLECTION OF 59 SHEETS OF ORIGINAL BRUSH-ART PAINTINGS BY PROF. TATSUO TOKI, JAPAN; mainly depicting all kinds of Summer-Olympic disciplines and fewer Winter-Sports.

TOKI, Tatsuo (1904-1967, Brush-Painting Artist and former Decathlete; 1928 World-Champion and Amsterdam-Olympics Participant; Original Drawings) / Gerd Abelbeck (1914-1997, german Sports-Official and -developer ['Golden Plan'], Chief of the 'German Olympic Society' 1952-1978, Consultant of the japanese Sports-Ministry and Movie-Maker of highly-awarded 'Nisshin Geppo'[Japan - Great Country of Sports]; Proveniance):

Published by (Tokyo, 1964 or short before*); 59 sheets of thin untrimmed Japan-paper ('Washi', ca. 32 x 23 cm), each with black-ink brushwork (some vertical, some horizontal) in Toki's famous pictographic manner, most of them monogrammed by the artist; loosely tipped-on slightly larger thin white cardboards (ca. 38 x 26 cm), often as folded double-sheets (unfolded ca. 38 x 52 cm)

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°°° [Ultimate POST-SUMMERSALE: PRICE-REDUCTION of 50% until Monday, October 05, 2026; previously EUR 2.800,-] --- A LARGE COLLECTION SET OF TOKI'S BRUSHWORK ORIGINALS (*: some of them were reprinted in the Olympic-Committee's official Book for the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games), OFTEN WITH THE ARTIST'S HOLOGRAPH MONOGRAMME. - From the estate of german sports-official Gert Abelbeck - who during his cooperation with the japanese sports-ministry around the 1964 Summer-Olympic Games - created a Cinema-Movie 'Nisshin Geppo'(Japan - Great Country of Sports) in which Toki appeared as former professional athlete, now sports-university teacher as well as artist teaching brushwork-classes ('Sumi-e'). The movie was awarded the National Filmprize at the 'Berliner Filmfestspiele'(Berlin Film Festival), Toki also illustrated the German National Olympic Committee's (NOK) official book-edition for the 18th Summer-Olympics in Tokyo 1964 which is enclosed in this offer.

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• Title: COLLECTION OF 59 SHEETS OF ORIGINAL BRUSH-ART PAINTINGS BY PROF. TATSUO TOKI, JAPAN; mainly depicting all kinds of Summer-Olympic disciplines and fewer Winter-Sports.
• Publisher: (Tokyo, 1964 or short before*); 59 sheets of thin untrimmed Japan-paper ('Washi', ca. 32 x 23 cm), each with black-ink brushwork (some vertical, some horizontal) in Toki's famous pictographic manner, most of them monogrammed by the artist; loosely tipped-on slightly larger thin white cardboards (ca. 38 x 26 cm), often as folded double-sheets (unfolded ca. 38 x 52 cm)
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  • 11) Japan; Japon; Nippon / China ~