LOT DETAILS

Materials:

ink and colour on a gold silk ground

Measurements:

67.72 in. (172.00 cm.) (height) by 141.34 in. (359.00 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

signed Soyu with seal

Exhibited:

Soyu was the artist's go. Born in Fukuoka, Imanaka Zenzo was known as a kacho-ga (paintings depicting birds and flower) painter. He studied under Kawai Gyokudo (1873-1957) in Tokyo. His works were exhibited for the first time in 1908 at the second Bunten; thereafter he showed with the Nihon Bijutsu Kyokai and other Government Exhibitions. His works are in the collections of prominent institutions such as The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and The Fukuoka Prefectural Museum.~~The artist ensures that the viewer's eyes are completely focused on the gorgeousness of nature. Imanaka densely textures the painting, detailing the lichens on the boles of the trees and the mossy dew grass as well as the range of luscious-green flora that fills the composition from the Virginia creepers that bend across the top of the trees along the upper section, to the great curling campsis grandiflora and ferns in the lower foreground.