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Lot Essay
Born in Kyoto, Kawabe Kado graduated from the Kyoto Municipal Special School of Painting. He was a pupil of Kikuchi Keigetsu, and an exhibitor at the Bunten, Teiten, Shin-Bunten and Nitten. Kado employs a startling pointillist technique extensively in this painting to render the sand, upper ground, lichens and mounded ground covers. Gofun in raised work details the feathers of the doves, portions of the rocks, and some of the vegetation. For emphasis mica is mixed into some of the pigments, and washes of gold warm the surfaces of rocks. The angular treatment of these echoes a cubist sensibility.
A screen by Akita Senkyo with a very similar scene of doves on a garden basin was exhibited at the Teiten in 1928, and is illustrated in Nittenshi, Vol. 8, p. 278, no. 5. This suggests that Kado may have exhibited this screen earlier, perhaps in 1926 or 1927.
European pointillism may have influenced Kado, though the technique is perfectly incorporated here into the vocabulary of Nihonga painting.
A screen by Akita Senkyo with a very similar scene of doves on a garden basin was exhibited at the Teiten in 1928, and is illustrated in Nittenshi, Vol. 8, p. 278, no. 5. This suggests that Kado may have exhibited this screen earlier, perhaps in 1926 or 1927.
European pointillism may have influenced Kado, though the technique is perfectly incorporated here into the vocabulary of Nihonga painting.