Lot 311: Ikunosuke Shirataki (1873-1961)

Oil on canvas, framed; depicting the conical peak through a narrow scrim of clouds, beyond a foreground hillside and river view; signed lower left I. Shirataki.
21 x 28 3/4in (53.3 x 73cm)

Born in Hyogo Prefecture, Shirataki studied plein-air painting with Yamamoto Hosui and Kuroda Seiki at their private school in Tokyo, the Tenshin Dojo, and at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, graduating in 1898. He exhibited with the art society Hakubakai for several years, then traveled to Europe and America from 1904 to 1910. For the remainder of his career, Shirataki promoted Western-style oil painting in Japan, garnering several important prizes before his death in 1960.