Lot 9: Terasaki Kogyo (1866-1919) Meiji Period

Meiji Period
A pair of six-fold screens, painted in sumi on silk, one screen decorated with a vertical thicket of bamboo tree trunks, the other with truncated pine trunks arranged diagonally across the screen, both signed Kogyo with seal Kogyo. 152cm x 303cm (59¾in x 119¼in). (2).

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A creative and eclectic painter, Kogyo approached these paintings in a minimalist spirit and the artist's feeling for abstraction, atmospheric perspective and the value of negative space echo in this composition.

Compare with a pair of similarly executed screens in terms of style and composition painted by his contemporary Shimomura Kanzan (1873-1930), entitled Kinoaida no Aki held in the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, illustrated by Fujita Tsuneo, Nihon Bijyutsu Zenshu, vol.2, p.428, pl.1008; Bijyutsu Shuppansha, Tokyo, 1969 and another pair of screens entitled Ochiba by Hishida Shunsho (1874-1911), see ibid., p.429, in the collection of the Eisei Bunko Museum in Tokyo.

See also footnote to lot 15.