Shusen (1736)

Lot 238: Watanabe Shusen (1736-1824)

Name: Watanabe Shusen (1736-1824)
Brand: Christie's
SKU: ddwv9oz32g

Est: $4,000 USD - $5,000 USDSold:

Christie'sNew York, NY, USSeptember 18, 2008

Item Overview

Description

Watanabe Shusen (1736-1824)
Tiger
Signed Shusen Gen'yu sha, sealed To Shusen in, Aza iwaku Gen'yu and another seal
Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
45¼ x 20¾in. (115 x 52.7cm.)

Artist or Maker

Shusen (1736)

Notes

Shusen was a Nagasaki painter working in the Chinese style. He was a pupil of the Nagasaki painters Ishizaki Gensho and Gentoku. After the death of Watanabe Shusai, who had adopted him, he inherited the title of Chinese painting expert (kara-e mekiki). He was known for his paintings of tigers.

For another tiger painting by Shusen, see Chiba City Museum of Art, ed., Nanpinha dairyuko: Edo no ikoku shumi/The Nanpin School: The Fascination with the Exotic in Edo-period painting (Chiba: Chiba City Museum of Art, 2001), pl. 24.

Auction Details

Japanese & Korean Art

Christie's

September 18, 2008, 10:00 AM EST

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

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