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No.3974
Title Unknown
Gouache on paper
54.8 × 79.3 cm -
No.3991
Title unknown
Pencil on paper
38 × 27 cm -
No.3992
Title unknown
Drawing on paper
29.4 × 27.0 cm -
No.3993
Title unknown
Charcoal, pencil, watercolor on paper
26.8 × 35.7 cm -
No.3994
Title unknown
Drawing on paper
26.8 × 38.1 cm -
No.3995
Title unknown
Drawing on paper
26.9 × 38.0 cm -
No.3996
Title unknown
Drawing on paper
38.1 × 27.0 cm -
No.3998
Title unknown
Drawing on paper
26.9 × 32.2 cm -
No.3999
Title unknown
Drawing on paper
26.0 × 36.5 cm -
No.4000
Title unknown
Drawing on paper
27.1 × 38.2 cm -
No.4001
Title unknown
Drawing on paper
38.0 × 26.0 cm -
No.4003
Title unknown
Mimeograph
26.9 × 38.0 cm -
No.4004
Poppies 1
Mimeograph
29.2×26.9 cm -
No.4007
Title unknown
Mimeograph
28.2 × 13.4 cm -
No.4009
Title unknown
Copperplate print
8.5 × 15.5 cm -
No.3923
Slender Tree 2
Mimeograph
34.2 × 15.8 cm -
No.3958
Title Unknown
Mimeograph
22 × 18 cm -
No.3870
Title Unknown
Mimeograph
16.5 × 16.4 cm -
No.3871
Title Unknown
Mimeograph
35.8 × 20.9 cm -
No.3869
Sunflowers, Hydrangeas and Fish
Mimeograph
19.1 × 37.8 cm -
No.3829
Still Life
Mimeograph
14.6 × 34.8 cm -
No.3828
Figs
Mimeograph
21.3 × 28 cm -
No.3802
Tulips
Mimeograph
24 × 12.3 cm -
No.3719
Hydrangeas
Mimeograph
24 × 18.2 cm -
No.3500
Green Fruit
Mimeograph
72 × 22.6 cm -
No.3919
Lotus Flowers
Copperplate print
36.6 × 24.2 cm -
No.3709
Hydrangeas
Mimeograph
18.5 × 41 cm -
No.3660
Title Unknown
Mimeograph
35.8 × 10 cm -
No.3555
Title Unknown
Mimeograph
11.0 × 16.8 cm -
No.3559
Still Life (Fruit)
Mimeograph
14 × 34 cm -
No.3538
Hydrangeas
Mimeograph, copperplate print
18.2 × 18.4 cm -
No.3232
Mansion on an Isolated Isoand
Copperplate print
32.5 × 38.5 cm -
No.3280-1
Broken Houses (Forgotten Memories of Youth)
Mimeograph
8.6 × 10.5 cm -
No.3280-2
Small World
Mimeograph
12.4 × 10.1 cm -
No.3718
Fish and a Small Shellfish
Mimeograph
17.9 × 28 cm -
No.3710
Day and Crowm
Mimeograph
53.6 × 34.8 cm -
No.3708
Backyard
Mimeograph
37.2 × 53.1 cm -
No.3746
Title Unknown
Mimeograph
23.6 × 37.0 cm -
No.3680
Trees
Mimeograph
32.1 × 21.4 cm -
No.3677
Nude Woman
Mimeograph
35.6 × 12.2 cm -
No.3557
Light in a Forest
Mimeograph
46 × 31.8 cm -
No.3570
Rape Blossoms and Sea
Mimeograph
17.9 × 35.7 cm -
No.3560
Hydrangeas
Mimeograph
28.4 × 19.9 cm -
No.3606
Bracken
Mimeograph
17.8 × 23.9 cm -
No.3283
Owl
Mimeograph
25.5 × 21.5 cm -
No.3554
Bowl and Fruit
Mimeograph
14.3 × 26.8 cm -
No.3558
A Boat on a Beach
Mimeograph
21.4 × 34.6 cm -
No.3497
Title Unknown
Mimeograph
29.8 × 22 cm -
No.3295
Still Life
Mimeograph
27 × 30 cm -
No.3334
Hydrangeas and Fish
Mimeograph
21.5 × 37.7 cm -
No.3057
Bare Tree
Mimeograph
36.1 × 23.8 cm -
No.3405
Title Unknown
Mimeograph
27 × 29.9 cm -
No.3370
Title Unknown
Mimeograph
17.5 × 38.1 cm -
No.3031
profile
Mimeograph
19.7 × 17.7 cm -
No.3307
Apricots
Mimeograph
18.4 × 43.7 cm -
No.3280-4
Sea Creatures
Mimeograph
10.4 × 7.4 cm -
No.2314
Girl
Mimeograph
26.8 × 27.7 cm -
No.3213
Still Life with Lotus Root and Peas
Mimeograph
15.9 × 41.7 cm -
No.3221
Title Unknown
Mimeograph
11 × 19.6 cm -
No.3314
Sand Hill
Mimeograph
18.5 × 27.5 cm -
No.3381
Fish
Mimeograph
58.2 × 30 cm -
No.3226
Title Unknown
Mimeograph
30.5 × 57.3 cm -
No.3333
Seaside Still Life
Mimeograph
33.8 × 23.2 cm -
No.3280-8
Bare Trees
Mimeograph
6.0 × 13.9 cm -
No.3651
Tree
Oil on canvas
15号M -
No.3516
Fire for luring fish at night
Oil on canvas
53 × 33.3 cm (10号)
Biography
Born in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, in 1923. After graduating early from the Metal Casting Course of the Craft Department at Tokyo Fine Arts School (now Tokyo University of the Arts), he then evacuated to his mother’s hometown of Ichinoseki, Iwate prefecture where he became an art teacher at the junior high school. He developed an interest in the decorative effects of mimeographs, sparked by an invitation card for the dance class that was created by Jiro Senda, who was the homeroom teacher of the class in which Fukui was an assistant teacher, and was a skilled mimeograph technician. After retiring from the Ichinoseki Junior High school, he moved to Tokyo in 1952. Fukui visited his brother-in-law's mimeograph printing studio to learn the techniques and started to make a living by working part-time jobs connected with painting. From that period, he also began creating his own mimeographic works at a full-scale.
In 1959, he held his first solo exhibition at Nihonbashi Gallery in Tokyo. His exquisite works with distinctive grace that is unique to him, which cannot be found in Europe or the U.S. amazed the collectors, beginning with American collectors who were resident in Japan, and subsequently he expanded his activities overseas such as holding an solo-exhibition in the U.S. and Australia and participating international prints art exhibitions. As he became famous, he began focusing on the oil paintings, a medium he had been long working with, and rarely created mimeographs in the 1970s. The works he produced intensively for only about 10 years had the power to renew the impression of mimeographs, which was so familiar to people's daily lives and so far removed from the realm of art. He became a popular “Western-style painter” known for his snow scenes and depictions of maiko (apprentice geisha), but passed away suddenly in 1986 at the age of 62 due to illness.