Maeta Kanji (1896-1930)

Portrait of a boy (Shonen no zo)

Details

Maeta Kanji (1896-1930)
Portrait of a boy (Shonen no zo)
Signed and dated K. Maeta 1928; signed in Japanese on verso
Oil on canvas
45.7/8 x 31.5/8in. (116.5 x 80.4cm.)
With Kanji no Kai certificate no. 00-01, 2000.3.2

Exhibited

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, "Daiyonkai 1930-nen Kyokai ten" (4th 1930 Association exhibition), 1929
Kanazawa Museum of Modern Art, "Maeta Kanji ten" (Maeta Kanji exhibition), 1960.9.17--10.30
"Botsugo 50-nen kinen Maeta Kanji ten" (Maeta Kanji memorial exhibition on the 50th anniversary of his death), shown at the following venues:
Odakyu Department Store, Shinjuku, Tokyo, 1979.11.2--14
Hyogo Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, 1979.11.17--12.16
Shibuya Shoto Museum, Tokyo, "Tokubetsu ten Maeta Kanji" (Maeta Kanji special exhibition), 1988.4.5--5.22

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Maeta Kanji garon (About the paintings of Maeta Kanji) (Tokyo: Kinseido, 1932), illustr.
Imaizumi Atsuo, Maeta Kanji (Tokyo: Atoriesha, 1941), no. 24.
Maeta Kanji ten (Maeta Kanji exhibition) (Kanazawa: Kanazawa Museum of Modern Art, 1960), cat. no. 38.
Botsugo 50-nen kinen Maeta Kanji ten (Maeta Kanji memorial exhibition on the 50th anniversary of his death) (Tokyo and Kobe: Nihon Keizai Shimbunsha, 1979), no. 66.
Shibuya Shoto Museum, ed., Tokubetsu ten Maeta Kanji (Maeta Kanji special exhibition), exh. cat. (Tokyo: Shibuya Shoto Museum, 1988), no. 97.

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