Celebrating Asian Art

What’s happening in Asian art

New exhibition at Joan B. Mirviss LTD

October 12, 2021

Among the Vines, ca. 1984-87, Watercolor on paper, Image size: 8 1/2 x 11 3/4 in., Framed size: 16 x 19 1/2 in

DŌ-KI: The Child Demon
Artworks by Ogawa Yoichiro (1939-2002)

The mysterious artist known as Dō-ki was born Ogawa Yoichiro into a family of antique dealers. Exposed to art at an early age, he was a prominent collector and connoisseur. After a visit to European and American museums in 1968, however, he took up the brush and became a painter himself. He moved to the Montparnasse district in Paris, where he created works influenced by the Fauves of the 1920s. Though inspired by modern art movements of the West, he was clearly influenced by Japanese mythologies. His enigmatic artworks are populated by foxes, oni, and yokai. He signed them Dō-ki, which means child demon.

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