LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Two-panel screen; ink, color and gold on silk

Measurements:

73.23 in. (186.00 cm.) (height) by 78.74 in. (200.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

Sealed Goro and Kame

Exhibited:

Tokyo, "Teikoku Bijutsuin dai nanakai bijutsu tenrankai" (7th Exhibition of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts) [7th Teiten], 1926. Karatsu City Modern Library Art Hall (Karatsu shi kindai toshokan bijutsu horu), "Meguro Gajoen bijutsukan korekushon ni yoru: Kindai Nihonga ni miru bijinga" (Modern Japanese-style beauty painting from the collection of the Meguro Gajoen Museum), 1999.11.14--12.13.

Literature:

Nittenshi hensan iinkai (Nittenshi ed. staff), ed., Teiten hen 2 (Teiten [Exhibition of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts], vol. 2), vol. 7 of Nittenshi (History of the Nitten [Japanese Art Exhibition]) (Tokyo: Korinsha, 1982), p. 369, fig. 68. Hosono Masanobu et al., Kindai no bijinga: Meguro Gajoen korekushon/Paintings of Japanese Beauties at the Turn of the Century (Kyoto: Kyoto shoin, 1988), pl. 46. Karatsu City Modern Library, ed., Meguro Gajoen bijutsukan korekushon ni yoru: Kindai Nihonga ni miru bijinga (Modern Japanese-style beauty painting from the collection of the Meguro Gajoen Museum), exh. cat. (Karatsu: Karatsu City Modern Library, 1999), pl. 6.

Provenance:

Hosokawa Rikizo Collection. Meguro Gajoen Museum, Tokyo. Previously sold in these Rooms, 29 March 2005, lot 372.