Good condition.
Signed with a stamped signature and has the inscription "D-19/25" on the lower left of the verso.
There are a few stains on the verso due to the artwork's age.
There is tape on the top and left edge of the verso.

Saori Akutagawa (Madokoro) (1924 - 1966) was known as one of the female artists active in post-war Japan. Before she began painting, she had studied as a vocalist at the Tokyo School of Music (now Tokyo University of the Arts). After graduating from the school, she married a composer, Yasushi Akutagawa in 1948 and followed with the birth of her first child. This period became the turning point of her career as a painter. From around 1953, Akutagawa began showcasing her works at the Yomiuri Anderpanden Exhibition and the Modern Art Association Exhibition. Her style, which was strongly influenced by the Japanese craft of dyeing, attracted attention in the post-Japanese art world at the time. Most representative works include ‘Women (I)’ (1955) and the Myth series, which used myths and folk tales as motifs in the paintings. 

This work, titled ‘Green Women’, which puts on a richly coloured veil, depicts an abstract portrait of women with geometric features. Akutagawa, who had never studied painting,  began learning oil painting at Genichiro Inokuma’s institute and wax-dyeing from Michimata Noguchi in 1950. This work, painted with four different crayon colours - blue, yellow-green, green and brown - had been created at such an early stage of the artist’s career. This work shows the germ of the evolution toward her later paintings, such as the ‘Women’ series, which led her to dive into her conspicuous expression in the post-war art world in Japan. 

Shuyu Gallery, Tokyo