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Pair of Japanese Folding Screens with Cranes, Kanō School, 19th Century

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  • Japanese Folding Screen with a Spring Landscape, Kano School, 19th Century
    Located in Milano, IT
    The scene is dominated by a plum tree in bloom under which a couple of paradise birds is courting. The screen is crossed by a luxuriant creek, a typical feature of the springtime.  
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    Antique 19th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

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    Paper

  • Pair of Japanese Screens with Flowers of the Four Seasons, 19th Century
    Located in Milano, IT
    This pair of screens belongs to a genre of lyrical paintings of flowers, grasses, and other plants that flourished around the middle of the 17th century and became a specialty of the Sôtatsu studio. The use of a rather complex composition of clusters of flowers and the puddling of ink was initiated by Tawaraya Sôtatsu, the founder of the Rimpa School, who was active from 1600 until 1642. The screens are abstract and decorative but there is, at the same time, a keen sense of naturalism not only in the attention to accurate detail but in the profusion of vegetation. The passage of the year is symbolized by the variety of plants that bloom in different seasons. The tarashikomi - here used on leaves, petals and trunks - is a Classic Rinpa technique in which pale black ink or a color is brushed onto an area of a painting and then either darker ink, or the same or a contrasting color, is dropped into the first before it has completely dried, creating an effect of pooled colors with softly blurred edges. Its delicacy, preciousness, and effeminacy are identified with the over-refinement of its patrons, while the vigor, monochromatic discipline, sharp observation, and virile forms of the Kano school are a testament to the vitality of the rising warrior class. The plants are almost all identifiable: in the summer-spring part, you can find wheat, buttercups, irises, begonias, hydrangeas, coral bells...
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    Antique 19th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

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  • Pair of Japanese Two-Fold Screens with Flower Arrangements and Rare Birds
    Located in Milano, IT
    Karamono with flower arrangements and rare birds Edo period, 18th century Pair of two-panel folding screens Ink, colors, gofun and gold leaf on paper Each 170 by 165 cm ...
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    Antique 18th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

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    Paper

  • Pair of Six-Panel Folding Screens with Peonies and Other Flowers
    Located in Milano, IT
    A pair of six-panel folding screens with peonies and other flowers 19th century Each 72.5 by 241 cm Small and elegant screens with an ideal scene depicting peonies and other flower species...
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    Antique 19th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

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    Paper

  • Japanese Two-Panel Screen with Scenes at the Pleasure Quarters, 18th Century
    Located in Milano, IT
    In the pleasure districts, the stringent codes were meant to be forgotten. In this painting, some clients are watching from outside the teahouse, while some are entering, one of them...
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    Antique 18th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

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    Paper

  • Hanging Scroll by Kamisaka Sekka, Japan
    Located in Milano, IT
    This painting represents a man waiting under a dark tree. The composition is extremely simple but suggestive. The artist, with few elements, can, in fact, create a vivid and dynamic scene, based on the tension between the strong ink stain that renders the tree and the elegant figure of the man, dressed in an aristocratic robe. Painter and designer, Kamisaka Sekka...
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    Early 20th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

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  • Circa 1700 Japanese Screen Pair, Cranes & Pines, Kyoto Kano School
    Located in Kyoto, JP
    Pines and Cranes Anonymous. Kyoto Kano School. Late 17th/early 18th centuries, circa 1700. Pair of six-panel Japanese folding screens. Ink, gofun, pigment and gold leaf on paper. This bold composition presents two pine trees extending to the left and right across a gold leaf background. One tree is silhouetted against a green ground, golden clouds obscuring its true size, the other stretches across a stylized waterway. The pines are paired with Manchurian cranes with red crests and snow white plumage. Both have been highly auspicious motifs in East Asia since Chinese antiquity. Here the artist utilized fluid and instinctive ink brushstrokes to define the trunk, branches and tail feathers, in strong contrast to the precision and sharp angularity of the crane’s legs and beaks. The adoption of this vast metallic painting support required an unerring sense of design and composition, so that the negative space surrounding motifs could imply context for the otherwise floating pictorial elements. The brushwork detailing the trunks of the pines, the exaggerated dimensions of the pine trees and the strength and dynamism of the composition are all reminiscent of Kano Eitoku...
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  • 19th Century Japanese Edo Six Panel Kano School Landscape Screen
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    Late Edo period 19th century Japanese six-panel landscape screen featuring a cypress tree over a flowering hibiscus with a pair of hototogisu birds. Kano school painted with ink and ...
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  • 18th Century Japanese Kano School Landscape Screen
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  • 18th Century Japanese Screen Pair. Plum & Young Pines. Kano School.
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    Dimensions (Each screen): H. 176 cm x W. 378 cm (69’’ x 149’’) This pair of Japanese folding screens depict blossoming plum trees amongst young pines. They are designed to capture t...
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