Lot 24: Ike Gyokuran (1727-1784)

Chrysanthemum Signed and sealed Gyokuran Hanging scroll; ink on paper 42 x 11in. (106.5 x 28cm.) NOTES For a biography of Gyokuran, a bohemian poet and painter and the wife of Ike Taiga, see Stephen Addiss, "Three Women of Gion," in Marsha Weidner, ed., Flowering in the Shadows: Women in the History of Chinese and Japanese Painting (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990), pp. 241-63.