TOSHIO SAEKI / The Red Box

Toshio Saeki
The Red Box 1972
Hardcover with outer box, Unpaginated
34 x 26cm
Haga Shoten, Tokyo

Condition: Fine, some pages have foxing but overall a fine copy

Also known as coloured art book, this is Saeki's third work, still very raw and graphic, but with the use of two colour printing - Graphically the most striking and ambitious of his work!

Born in Miyazaki prefecture and raised in Osaka. After working as an illustrator in a commercial design studio for several years, he became a freelance illustrator because he felt uncomfortable with the reality of being invaded by commercial design. While being influenced by Tommy Ungerer's work that he admired, his humorous work with eros and horror motifs received high praise, and when he sent the card work made in his private version to the people concerned and artists, Terayama In response to compliments from Shuji and Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, a special feature of the popular magazine "Heibon Punch" at that time was decided, and in 1972 he was also dexterous in the jacket of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's album "Some Time in New York City". It was decided to climb the stairs of the star.