Signed on the lower right side.
Signed in Japanese on the upper right side of the verso. Signed and dated in English on the lower right on the verso.
Has a faint soiling, stain marks, and rust in places due to the age of the artwork.

The painter Asano Yae (1914 - 1996 ) was born in the city of Suzuka in Mie Prefecture and began producing work during the mid-1930s, picking up paint brushes after serving in the military. Around the same time, Asano became close friends with Noda Riichi, a poet from the city of Tsu, and learned about the new art movements that were spreading across Europe and America from art magazines and books that were in Noda’s possession. However, whilst alive, Asano claimed to be an artisan (craftsperson), not an artist, pursuing methods of abstract expression whilst walking alone down Asano’s own unique path. Asano’s representative style is evident in the milky-white paintings from the late 1950s, in which innumerable sharp lines are drawn across the surface. Asano produced these characteristic works by scratching a stylus across the surface of half dried white paint that had been applied with rollers and paint knives. Once the paint was dry, black paint was applied to the entire surface and immediately wiped away. The painting was completed by the black remaining in the hollows of the surface that emerged as lines.
This work, “Untitled”, was produced in 1968 and is symbolic of this period of Asano’s work. Though the black and white colors seem cold-hearted at first glance, they draw out Asano’s poetic world view and expresses it like delicate handwriting.