LOT DETAILS

Materials:

hanging scroll, ink and colour on silk

Size Notes:

excluding mount

Markings:

signed Joku Nyudo Kyosai zu and sealed Bankoku tobu [flying over many lands]

Literature:

Josiah Conder, Paintings and Studies by Kawanabe Kyosai: An Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings, Studies and Sketches, by the Above Artist, with Explanatory Notes on the Principles, Materials and Technique, of Japanese Painting, (Tokyo, 1911), no.51, pl.XII. Winkel and Magnussen, Copenhagen, Doktor Josiah Conder's Samling Af Japansk Kunst, Auction catalogue, 1st-3rd June 1942, Lot 149, p.44, illustrated p.35. Timothy Clark, Demon of Painting: The Art of Kawanabe Kyosai, (British Museum Press, 1993), p.149 - the painting is mentioned in the text for no.102, and is described as a "wonderful hanging scroll of two crows".

Provenance:

Josiah Conder. Purchased by the present owner at auction, V. Winkel and Magnussen, Copenhagen, 1942.