Good condition.
Signed on the upper left on the verso, dated on the left edge.
There is discoloration throughout the surface and a few faint dirt marks in places due to the age of the artwork.

Certificate of Authenticity by Art Front Gallery

Isobe Yukihisa (1936 - ) is a contemporary artist born in Tokyo. During his high school years, Isobe joined the Demokrato Artists Association, studying lithography under the avant-garde artist Ei-Q. After graduating from the department of painting at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1959, he attracted attention while exhibiting a relief work of repeated emblems in 1962 at the Yomiuri Independent Exhibition, a free to enter, unscreened exhibition organized by Takiguchi Shuzo and others. In 1965, he moved to the United States, where his creative focus shifted to the environment. In 1970, Isobe started to study environmental planning in the United States, and after a long hiatus, he eventually returned to producing art in the 1990s. In recent years, he has presented project-based works themed on rivers at the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, as well as other projects exploring the overlap of environmental themes such as biotechnology, geology, and weather with visual media such as color.
The work in focus, "Work 62-50 (WB1)", made in 1962, is a very early example of the artist’s patch style compositions; in this case, a number of patches are formed by various mediums such as plaster mixed with marble and cloth, and arranged in a grid of 8 columns by 8 rows. The repetitive nature of the grid and the order of the squares are disrupted by abstractions within the individual designs; this combining of repetition and abstraction imparts a style that is unique to the art of Isobe. Standing at over 180 cm tall, "Work 62-50 (WB1)" is a masterpiece within Isobe’s patch series and a truly rare work.

"Landscape Yukihisa Isobe, Artist-Eco-logical Planner", Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha, 2007, p.187

"Landscape Yukihisa Isobe, Artist-Eco-logical Planner", July 28 - September 30, 2007, The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo