KAWANABE GYOSUI (1866-1935)

BEAUTY READING A LETTER TAISHO PERIOD, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Details

KAWANABE GYOSUI (1866-1935)
Beauty reading a letter
Taisho period, early 20th century
Signed Gyosui ga, sealed Sui
Hanging scroll; ink, color and gold on silk
44 x 20in. (113.7 x 50.7cm.)

Exhibited

"Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e meihin ten: Azabu bijutsukan shozo/Ukiyo-e Painting Masterpieces in the Collection of the Azabu Museum of Art," shown at the following venues:
Sendai City Museum, Sendai, 1988.6.11--7.17
Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, Osaka, 1988.9.6--10.9
Sogo Museum, Yokohama, 1988.10.20--11.13

Lot Essay

published:

Azabu Museum of Art and Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, eds., Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e meihin ten: Azabu bijutsukan shozo/Ukiyo-e Painting Masterpieces in the Collection of the Azabu Museum of Art, introduction by Kobayashi Tadashi, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Azabu Museum of Art; Osaka: Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, 1988), pl. 104.

Kawanabe Kusumi, ed., Kawanabe Gyosui (Warabi City: Kawanabe Kyosai Memorial Museum, 1990), pl. 2.

Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Azabu bijutsu kogeikan (Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts), vol. 6 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e taikan (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1995), no. 53.

Gyosui is the daughter of the artist Kawanabe Kyosai (1831-1889).