LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Pair of six-panel screens; ink, color and gold leaf on paper

Size Notes:

58.75 x 138.25 in. (149.2 x 351.2 cm.)

Literature:

“Works of Old Masters,” Bijutsu Gaho (November 20, 1904), Plate 2. Shoga Taikan (Compilation of calligraphy and painting). Tokyo: Shoga Taikan Kankokai, 1917, Plate 8 and pp. 111–12 Japanese 16th–18th Century Screens; 12th–14th Century Paintings, New York: Willard Gallery, 1960, cat. no. 2 Yamamoto Hideo, “Unkoku Togan hitsu Gunmazu byobu” (Screens depicting a herd of horses by Unkoku Togan), Kokka 1141 (1990), fig. 7, p. 25. Unkoku Toeki / Unkoku Toeki and followers of Sesshu in the first half of the 17th century, edited by Watada Minoru. Yamaguchi City: Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, 2001, fig. 7, p. 105 [listed as Maeda Collection].

Provenance:

Marquis Maeda Toshinari (1885–1942), Tokyo Collins & Moffatt, Seattle Marian Willard Johnson (1904–1985), New York