Sugiura Hisui 杉浦非水, artist.

[Kakemono 掛け物 - Hanging Scroll]

Item #84668

[Kakemono 掛け物 - Hanging Scroll]

Sugiura Hisui 杉浦非水, artist.

[Painting and Poem - Red Fuji]

Hanging scroll, image size 52 1/4" X 26 1/2". Beautifully mounted on brocade. The painting is signed and sealed by Sugiura Hisui 杉浦非水 (1876-1965), responsible between the wars and after for Mitsukoshi department stores' trendsetting design and publicity. He has been rediscovered within the last decade. Among a number of other shows illustrating his role in creating "Taisho chic," there was a wonderful retrospective on his lifetime of work hung at the Tokyo Museum of Modern Art in 2000. This large and lovely work reveals his debt to tradition. With a presentation letter from him to a professor acquaintance, Hiruma Masamichi, dated New Year's day, Shōwa 40 (1965), the year Hisui died. A note on the box indicates this scroll was hung at the influential Issuikai annual exhibit 一水会展. In a scroll box and outer slipcase.

Price: $4,850.00