Lot 2049 Hishida Shunso (1874-1911), Moonlit Sea (Kaigetsu), Meiji period, early 20th century | 菱田春草　海月　明治時代　20世紀初頭

Hishida Shunso (1874-1911), Moonlit Sea (Kaigetsu), Meiji period, early 20th century | 菱田春草　海月　明治時代　20世紀初頭

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There are a few very minor marks and slight wear within the waves and on the plain silk weave ground within the sky, some minor uneven toning, scroll ends have been removed.

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hanging scroll: ink and colour on silk, signed and sealed Shunso, circa 1907, silk brocade border, accompanied with a fitted wood storage box with attestation by Yokoyama Taikan inscribed Taikan kandai [authenticated by Taikan]
横山大観（1868—1958年）鑑題
118 x 50 cm.
来源：Soshu Yasuda-ke Tohoku boke shogakibutsu tenkan nyusatsu [Exhibition and Catalogue of Calligraphy, Paintings, and Other Implements from the Yasuda Family of Soshu and a Certain Family of Tohoku], Tokyo Art Club, Kyoto, 14 November 1918, Lot 4.
展览：Tokubetsu-ten Shunso, Hishida Shunso sono hito to geijutsu [Special Exhibition: Shunso – Hishida Shunso, the Man and His Art, Yamatane Museum of Art, 1972, p. 41.
Kidai nihonga no kyosho Hishida Shunso [Hishida Shunso: Master of Japanese Modern Painting], Kyoto City Museum of Art, Kyoto, 1982, cat. no. 53.
Kaikan kinen tokubetsu-ten, umi sono imeji to zokei [Opening Exhibition: The Sea – Its Image and Form], Shimonoseki City Museum, 1983, cat. no. 25.
Kaikan tokubetsu kinen-ten kindai Nihonga no taido Yokoyama Taikan to sono shuhen [Special Opening Exhibition: The Awakening of Modern Japanese Painting – Yokoyama Taikan and His Circle], Nerima Art Museum, 1985, cat. no. 23.
Hishida Shunso, Odakyu Grand Gallery, Tokyo and Shinsaibashi Sogo, Osaka, 1987, cat. no. 61.
Taikan Shunso [Taikan and Shunso], Otsu City Museum of History, Otsu: Kobe City Museum, Kobe, 1994, cat. no. 37.
Hishida Shunso ten [Hishida Shunso], Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, 2003, cat. no. 49.
Tozai no Nihonga Taikan Shunso Shoen [Japanese Modern Paintings East and West Taikan, Shunso and Shoen], Okada Museum of Art, Hakone, 2021, exh. no. 45 (unillustrated).
Bi no suta-tachi Korin Jakuchu Hokusai joyo nado meihin zoroi [5th Anniversary Exhibition. All-Stars of the Okada Collection: Masterworks of Korin, Jakuchu, Hokusai and the Ru Ware Kilns], Okada Museum of Art, Hakone, 2018-19, exh. no. 462 (unillustrated).
著录：Gendai Nihon bijutsu zenshu [Complete Works of Japanese Modern Painting], vol. 3, Tokyo, 1972, pl. 9.
Kobayashi Tadashi ed., Masterpieces of the Okada Museum of Art, vol. 1, Tokyo, 2019, no. 132.
图录
说明：In 1906, Hishida Shunso followed Okakura Kakuzo (1863–1913) to Izura on the coast of Ibaraki prefecture, alongside fellow artists Yokoyama Taikan (1868–1958) [see Lots 2046 and 2051], Shimomura Kanzan (1873–1930) [see Lot 2135], and Kimura Buzan (1876–1942). After a period of inactivity due partly to a lack of public appreciation and constant ridicule in the press, the artists of the Nihon Bijutsuin founded by Kakuzo had effectively been driven out of Tokyo. Yet this setback proved short-lived: settled in a studio perched above the ocean, the painters pursued their work in close proximity – the friendly rivalry among them becoming a productive spur to their art. It was in this setting that Shunso pressed forward with the moro-tai, or ‘hazy style’, a method of colour washes that dispensed with linework.
Here, moonlight breaks through the cloud illuminating wave and rock for a fleeting instant. Not long after painting this work, Shunso fell ill and returned to Tokyo. He went on to produce his masterpieces Fallen Leaves (1909) and Black Cat (1910) before his death in 1911 at the age of thirty-eight.
來源
《相州安田家．東北某家書画器物展観入札》，東京美術俱樂部，東京，1918年11月14日，編號4
展覽
《特別展 春草 菱田春草その人と芸術》，山種美術館，東京，1972年，頁41
《近代日本画の巨匠 菱田春草展》，京都市美術館，京都，1982年，編號53
《開館記念特別展 海・そのイメージと造形》，下関市立美術館，下関，1983年，編號25
《開館特別記念展 近代日本画の胎動 横山大観とその周辺》，練馬区立美術館，東京，1985年，編號23
《菱田春草展》，小田急グランドギャラリー、東京・心斎橋そごう、大阪，1987年，編號61
《大観 春草》，大津市歴史博物館，大津，神戸市立博物館，神戸，1994年，編號37
《菱田春草展》，愛知県美術館，名古屋，2003年，編號49
《東西の日本画―大観．春草．松園など―》，岡田美術館，箱根，2021年，展覽編號45（沒載圖）
《美のスターたち―光琳．若冲．北斎．汝窯など名品ぞろい―》，岡田美術館，箱根， 2018-19年，展覽編號462（沒載圖）
出版
座右宝刊行会編 《日本美術全集》，卷3 ：菱田春草/今村紫紅，東京，1972年，圖版9
小林忠編，《岡田美術館名品撰》，卷1，東京，2019年，編號132