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Pater Sato-80s Japanese Futuristic Color Lithograph-Teafor Two-Pencil Signed A.P.
About the Artist: Pater Sato (born Yoshinori Sato, 1945–1994) was a Japanese illustrator andprint artist known for polished airbrush imagery and stylized portrayals ofwomen associated with late-20th-century Japanese graphic illustration. Hestudied design and illustration in Tokyo, including training at Studio Graphisand the Setsu Mode Seminar. In the early 1970s, Sato traveled to New York inconnection with the Tokyo Kid Brothers theater group, where he worked onstage-related design projects and spent time in the city’s art environment; heis also documented as having worked alongside abstract painter Paul Jenkins. Hereturned to Japan and established an international freelance illustrationcareer, with work circulating in Japan, Europe, and the United States.
Listing Description: Color lithograph titled Tea for Two by Pater Sato, produced circa 1982. Thecomposition presents two stylized female figures in Sato’s refined, airbrushedaesthetic, reflecting the period’s fashion-forward and futuristic pop-graphicsensibilities. This impression is a hand-signed Artist’s Proof (A.P.), offered unframed anddescribed in good condition. The page may show minor handling or edge wearconsistent with age.
Print Details • Title: Tea for Two • Artist: Pater Sato (Japanese, 1945–1994) • Date: c. 1982 • Technique: Color lithograph • Edition: A.P. (Artist’s Proof) • Signature: Pencil-signed by the artist • Sheet Size: 25 × 19 in • Image Size: 23 × 16.25 in • Condition: Good; minor handling or edge wear consistent with age; unframed
Provenance • Joshua Kodner Auctions
Inscriptions • Pencil signature “PATER” • “A.P.”
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