Kayama Matazo (b. 1927)

Hanafubuki (Blizzard of cherry blossoms)

Details

Kayama Matazo (b. 1927)
Hanafubuki (Blizzard of cherry blossoms)
Signed Matazo and sealed
Four-panel screen; ink and color on paper
68¾ x 141in. (174.6 x 358.1cm.)
Painted in 1986

Literature

PUBLISHED
Kayama Matazo, Rafu/Hanga/(Nudes/Prints), vol. 3 of Kayama Matazo zenshu/The Works of Matazo Kayama (Tokyo: Gakushu Kenkyusha, 1990), pl. 9.
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Ozaki Masaaki, Nakabayashi Kazuo, eds., Kayama Matazo ten/Matazo Kayama Exhibition, exh. cat.(Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shimbunsha, 1998), pl. 52, p. 98.
Kayama Matazo rafu no sekai ten (Kayama Matazo: Exhibition of the world of nudes), exh. cat. (Tokyo: Seibu Art Museum, 1986), color illustration.

Exhibited

Yurakucho Art Forum, Seibu Department Store, Tokyo, "Kayama Matazo: rafu no sekai ten (Kayama Matazo: Exhibition of the world of nudes)," 1986.10.24--11.4
"Kayama Matazo ten/Matazo Kayama Exhibition" shown at the following venues:
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 1998.3.14--5.10
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, 1998.5.30--7.5

Lot Essay

This work is one of four closely related, four-panel screens painted in 1986. In Rafu/Hanga, p. 142, the artist states that in these similar, yet independent works, he continued a study of nudes he had abandoned seven years earlier. Finding a common theme, the fleeting nature of beauty, Kayama combined nudes and cherry blossoms in a linear rhythm of swirling petals and dancing figures.

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