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Lot 115: Kano Tan'yu (1602-1674)

Est: $7,000 USD - $9,000 USD
Christie'sNew York, NY, USSeptember 16, 2003

Item Overview

Description

Kano Tan'yu (1602-1674) Mount Fuji and Miho no Matsubara Each signed Kunaikyo Hogen Tan'yu ga kore, sealed Morinobu and Tan'yu Pair of six-panel screens; ink, gold wash and slight color on paper 59 1/4 x 138 1/2 in. (150.7 x 351.2cm.) each approx. (2)

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Notes

Tan'yu painted Mount Fuji more than twenty-five times. Kiyomi Temple appears at the left of the screen here showing Mount Fuji. For another Mount Fuji by Kano Tan'yu dated 1667 in the Shizuoka Prefectural Art Museum, see Nihon Keizai shimbun, ed., Kano Tan'yu ten/Paintings by Kano Tan'yu: Commemorating the 400th [ sic ] of Tan'yu's birth, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Nihon Keizai shimbun, 2002), pl. 97.

Auction Details

Japanese and Korean Art

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Christie's
September 16, 2003, 12:00 AM EST

20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY, 10020, US