3661 - SHOICHI HASEGAWA (1929–2023) — "Zasso" — lithograph — signed in pencil — titled and numbered 53/100 — 58 x 48 cm

SHOICHI HASEGAWA (1929–2023) — "Zasso" — lithograph — signed in pencil — titled and numbered 53/100 — 58 x 48 cm Shōichi Hasegawa (長谷川 彰一)—also known as Soichi—was a Japanese printmaker and mixed-media painter of the 20th and early 21st centuries. He was born on September 7, 1929, in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, and passed away on February 22, 2023, in Paris. After studying at the Kokuga Institute in Tokyo, he was introduced to printmaking at Stanley William Hayter’s "Atelier 17" in Paris, where he arrived in 1961. He participated in numerous group exhibitions, primarily in the field of printmaking, including the *Salon de la Jeune Peinture* in Paris (1962), the *Salon des Réalités Nouvelles* in Paris (1963 and 1964), the International Print Biennial in Ljubljana (1963, 1965, and 1967), the *Salon de la Jeune Gravure Contemporaine* in Paris (starting in 1963), and the International Print Biennial in Kraków (1966). In 1968, he was awarded the First Prize for Printmaking at the International Exhibition in Como, and he subsequently received numerous other awards around the world.