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Thomsen Gallery

RECENT ART FAIR

The Winter Show

January 24 – February 2, 2025
Park Avenue Armory
Booth C6
643 Park Avenue, NYC

We are thrilled to return to The Winter Show this month at the Park Avenue Armory, running from January 24 to February 2.

Visit us at Booth C6, where we’ll showcase important works of art celebrating Japan’s rich cultural heritage, including an exquisite six-panel folding screen by Okura Uson (1845-1899).

We look forward to welcoming to our booth soon!

To learn more, click here.

 

RECENTLY CLOSED EXHIBITION

Golden Treasures: Japanese Gold Lacquer Boxes

October 26 – December 20, 2024

We are delighted to invite you to our annual autumn exhibition of Japanese gold lacquers dating from the early 18th century to the present. The exhibition focuses on lacquer works from the modern period, 1910s—50s, including a screen that was published and exhibited at the annual national art exhibition of 1952.

To learn more, click here.

 

About the Gallery

Thomsen gallery, located in a townhouse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, offers important Japanese paintings and works of art to collectors and museums worldwide. The gallery specializes in Japanese screens and scrolls; in early Japanese tea ceramics from the medieval through the Edo periods; in masterpieces of ikebana bamboo baskets; and in gold lacquer objects. It further specializes in post-war ink art and Gutai art as well as contemporary art by select artists, such as the internationally renowned Japanese ceramic artist Sueharu Fukami, the paper artist Kyoko Ibe, and the lacquer artist Yoshio Okada.

The gallery is owned by Erik and Cornelia Thomsen, who live and work in New York. Erik has been a dealer in Japanese art since 1981; born to Danish parents and raised in Japan, he is fluent in Japanese and was the first foreigner to apprentice to an art dealer in Japan. They have three children, Julia, Anna, and Georg.