Sotaro Yasui

Yasui Sotaro was one of modern Japan's most important painters, known for fusing French Post-Impressionism with Japanese compositional sensibility. He studied at the Academie Julian in Paris under Jean-Paul Laurens from 1907 to 1914, absorbing the lessons of Cezanne and Renoir. He received the Order of Culture in 1952 and was a professor at Tokyo University of the Arts.