Hajimé KATO (1925-2000). "Bouquet composition". Oil on canvas signed and dated 63 lower right, titled and countersigned on the back. Height 100 cm - Width : 73 cm Note : Japanese artist and cycling champion who settled in Paris in 1958. His first solo exhibition took place at the Galerie Duncun on rue de Seine in 1960. Several other Parisian galleries continued to support him until 1997, when he was exhibited in the Colbert Hall of the Ministry of Finance in Bercy for the "Year of Japan".