$1,000–$8,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Sugai's bold abstract art has appeal among collectors of both Japanese art and post-war European abstraction. His Paris gallery connections help maintain market visibility.
A print depicting an animal amid snow, one of Kumi Sugai's explorations of natural forms filtered through an abstract visual language. Sugai, who moved to Paris in 1952 and became a leading figure in postwar Japanese abstraction, often drew inspiration from calligraphy, road signs, and the natural world without representing any of them literally. The animal in this composition may appear as a dark, gestural shape against a white field, the snow rendered not as a landscape but as an enveloping blankness. The tension between the organic form and the surrounding void gives the image its visual charge.
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Yuki no Miyajima
1929
Color woodblock print; oban
1932
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Animal in the Snow was created by Kumi Sugai (菅井汲).
Animal in the Snow depicts snow scenes and animals.
