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Lot Essay
Kobayashi Shunsho studied painting in Kyoto under Yamamoto Shunkyo. He was first accepted into the government-sponsored exhibitions with the 9th Bunten in 1915, when his landscape entry won a prize. Shunsho also exhibited at the 4th Teiten in 1922 and the 10th Teiten in 1929. Both of the latter paintings depict country houses in bleak landscapes.
Shunsho composes this idyllic, summer landscape around a circular bay. White surf echoes white sand; billowing white clouds define the remote horizon of sea and sky; grass blows under the pines almost at our feet, pale green on the islet and surrounding hills. A haystack rock rises out of the distant surf, balanced by two groups of pines framing the composition in the foreground. Rocks and sand curl around to the island, while on the right, barely seen through the pines, a small dirt road wanders towards boats drying on the sand. Beyond, three indigo-clad figures walk the road to a fishing hamlet nestled beneath soaring hills, as mountains recede towards the horizon.
Shunsho composes this idyllic, summer landscape around a circular bay. White surf echoes white sand; billowing white clouds define the remote horizon of sea and sky; grass blows under the pines almost at our feet, pale green on the islet and surrounding hills. A haystack rock rises out of the distant surf, balanced by two groups of pines framing the composition in the foreground. Rocks and sand curl around to the island, while on the right, barely seen through the pines, a small dirt road wanders towards boats drying on the sand. Beyond, three indigo-clad figures walk the road to a fishing hamlet nestled beneath soaring hills, as mountains recede towards the horizon.