Description
Pater Sato-80s Japanese Futuristic Color Lithograph-Angels-PencilSigned A.P.
About the Artist:
Pater Sato (born Yoshinori Sato, 1945–1994) was aJapanese illustrator and print artist known for polished airbrush imagery andstylized portrayals of women associated with late-20th-century Japanese graphicillustration. He studied design and illustration in Tokyo, including trainingat Studio Graphis and the Setsu Mode Seminar. In the early 1970s, Sato traveledto New York in connection with the Tokyo Kid Brothers theater group, where heworked on stage-related design projects and spent time in the city’s artenvironment; he is also documented as having worked alongside abstract painterPaul Jenkins. He returned to Japan and established an international freelanceillustration career, with work circulating in Japan, Europe, and the UnitedStates.
Listing Description:
Color lithograph titled Angels by Pater Sato, producedcirca 1980. The composition presents two stylized female portraits rendered inSato’s refined, airbrushed aesthetic, reflecting the period’s fashion-forwardand futuristic pop-graphic sensibilities.
This impression is a hand-signed Artist’s Proof (A.P.),offered unframed and described in good condition. The page may show minorhandling or edge wear consistent with age.
Print Details • Title: Angels • Artist: Pater Sato (Japanese, 1945–1994) • Date: c. 1980 • Technique: Color lithograph • Edition: A.P. (Artist’s Proof) • Signature: Pencil-signed by the artist • Sheet Size: 25 × 19 in • Image Size: 23 × 14.5 in • Condition: Good; minor handling or edge wear consistent with age; unframed
Provenance • Joshua Kodner Auctions
Inscriptions • Pencil signature “PATER” • “A.P.”
Disclaimer: I have conducted research and prepared this description to the best of myability. This work is sold as-is, with no guarantees or warranties regardingprior ownership history beyond what is stated.
