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Lot 375: Kobayakawa Kiyoshi (1899-1948)

Est: $20,000 USD - $30,000 USDSold:
Christie'sNew York, NY, USMarch 29, 2005

Item Overview

Description

Genroku fuzoku (Pastimes of the Genroku era), 1937
Signed and dated Showa hinoto-ushi fuyu (Winter, 1937) Kobayakawa Kiyoshi and signed Kiyoshi, each sealed
Pair of six-panel screens; ink, color, gold and gold leaf on paper
68 x 163 1/4 in. (172.5 x 414cm.) each (2)

Artist or Maker

Exhibited

Sogo Museum, Yokohama, "Meguro Gajoen korekushon: Showa shoki no Nihonga meihin ten--Bijin to kacho" (The Meguro Gajoen collection: Masterpieces of Japanese-style painting of the early Showa period-- Beauties, birds and flowers), 1988.1.3-17

PUBLISHED:
Art One Co., Ltd., ed., Meguro Gajoen korekushon: Showa shoki no Nihonga meihin ten--Bijin to kacho (The Meguro Gajoen collection: Masterpieces of Japanese-style painting of the early Showa period-- Beauties, birds and flowers) (Yokohama: Sogo Museum; Tokyo: Nihon keizai shinbunsha, 1988), pl. 6.

Hosono Masanobu et al., Meguro Gajoen korekushon: Kindai no bijinga/Paintings of Japanese Beauties at the Turn of Century (Kyoto: Kyoto shoin, 1988), pl. 332.

Provenance

Hosokawa Rikizo Collection
Meguro Gajoen Museum, Tokyo

Notes

Kobayakawa was born in Fukuoka. At the age of nineteen he moved to Tokyo and became a pupil of the Nihonga painter Kaburagi Kiyokata (1878-1973). He submitted a painting in Nihonga style to the 1924 Teiten (Exhibition of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts). Around 1927 he began to study woodblock prints and in 1930-31 he self-published a series of six beauty prints in shin-hanga style.

This gorgeous pair of screens features fashions of the Genroku era (1688-1704). The women wear the finest tie-dyed, embroidered and hand-painted period costumes. Genroku-era pastimes shown on the left screen include backgammon and playing a small handdrum as well as reading and writing by candlelight. Women's clothing dominates the right screen. A young woman is being dressed by four attendants. Her robe was infused with the perfume from the incense burner at the right. The robe would have been draped over the lacquer stand. At the left an attendant holds up a hand mirror while another removes a robe from a lacquer tray.

This lot has no reserve

Auction Details

Japanese and Korean Art

by
Christie's
March 29, 2005, 12:00 AM EST

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