Lot 336*,TP
TANIGUCHI KOKYO (1864-1915) Meiji era (1868-1912), 1906
13 May 2021, 11:00 BST
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Meiji era (1868-1912), 1906
Kadomatsu (Pine Saplings) and Shijukara (Japanese Tits); a pair of six-panel folding screens, ink and colours on gold-leaf on paper with embroidered silk borders and lacquered frames, the carefully massed motifs depicted floating on a gold background with only the slightest indication of the ground in which the trees grow, a large group of trees at far right and the first two panels of the left-hand screen empty except for two birds; the right-hand screen signed at the right Hinoe-uma chuka jokan Kokyo kore o egaku (Painted by Kokyo in early May 1906) and sealed Gashu, the left-hand screen signed at left Kokyo kore o egaku (Painted by Kokyo) and sealed Gashu; with an inscribed wood storage box. Each screen overall: 170cm x 384cm (66 7/8in x 151 1/8in); image: 152cm x 358cm (59¾in x 141in). (3).
Kadomatsu (Pine Saplings) and Shijukara (Japanese Tits); a pair of six-panel folding screens, ink and colours on gold-leaf on paper with embroidered silk borders and lacquered frames, the carefully massed motifs depicted floating on a gold background with only the slightest indication of the ground in which the trees grow, a large group of trees at far right and the first two panels of the left-hand screen empty except for two birds; the right-hand screen signed at the right Hinoe-uma chuka jokan Kokyo kore o egaku (Painted by Kokyo in early May 1906) and sealed Gashu, the left-hand screen signed at left Kokyo kore o egaku (Painted by Kokyo) and sealed Gashu; with an inscribed wood storage box. Each screen overall: 170cm x 384cm (66 7/8in x 151 1/8in); image: 152cm x 358cm (59¾in x 141in). (3).
Footnotes
Ranked alongside Takeuchi Seiho as one of the four leading pupils of the Kyoto painter Kono Bairei, Taniguchi Kokyo started his exhibition career in 1891 and was selected to show his work in the Japanese section at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle. He specialized mainly in history painting but his submission to the Fourth Bunten exhibition, held in 1910, was a pair of screens of flowers of the four seasons, apparently executed like the present lot on a gold background.