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		•Seiji Togo Ongoing
			The works of Seiji Togo are the products of an extremely refined sensibility and sense of beauty supported by superb technical mastery. Togo's primary aim was to create art that could be understood and enjoyed by virtually anyone. His uniqueness and widespread popularity were uncommon in Japan. And his art, with its elegant, romantic style, has been called a glorification of women. The museum houses over two hundred of Togo's works spanning his career from 1914 to 1977. Included in the collection are some seventy oil paintings, and numerous drawings, etchings and lithographs, sculptures and tapestries. The holdings range from a 1914 self-portrait, the cubism-influenced "Village Feast" (1923) painted during his stay in Paris, and the surrealism-inspired "A Surrealistic Stroll" (1929), to examples of his mature style in "Nostalgia" (1959), "Tassili" (1974), embracing the artist's attraction to the Sahara Desert in later years, and "Rio de Janeiro" (1977), Togo's last exhibit at the Salon Nika
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