Sabro Hasegawa

Hasegawa spent the last two years of his life in San Francisco, and the many showings of his works were always events of great interest to the artistic community. Hasegawa was Japan's first abstract artist. He was, in effect, the incarnation of the fusion between Eastern and Western painting styles, and a formidable influence on many post war artists. including Gordon Onslow Ford, Fred Reichman, and even Franz Kline. Towards the end of his life, Sabro's style became more traditional, stated with a finesse that is the ultimate refinement of technique, as seen in the last scrolls and drawings he created.