First edition (2022)
First impression
Large format hardback in new condition
About
Baron is pleased to present the first posthumous book by Japanese artist Sadao Hasegawa (Jan 1945- Nov 1999), dedicated to Hasegawas rarely–published archive.
Hasegawa work is notable for incorporating Japanese, Indian, South-East Asian and African mythology, combined with homo-erotic depictions of hyper-masculine men, in acts of BDSM.
Beauty, eroticism and death arerecurringthemes in Hasegawas work; hewas inspired by Nobel Prize nominee Yukio Mishima. After Hasegawas suicide in 1999, his familywasgoing to dispose of the artists archive but discovered a portrait of Mishima painted on a stone, accompaniedbya note requesting that the worksbebequeathed to Gallery Naruyama, Tokyo, where the artists estateistoday.
