Maeda Seison (1885-1977)

Kamo (Duck)

Details

Maeda Seison (1885-1977)
Kamo (Duck)
Signed and sealed Seison
Ink, color and flecks of gold leaf on paper, framed and glazed
22 x 29in. (55.9 x 75.5cm.)
With separate wood box lid signed and sealed on the underside Seison and titled on the exterior Kamo

Lot Essay

Seison's "Duck" is an homage to the great Rimpa artist Tawaraya Sotatsu (d. ca. 1643) who painted a series of hanging scrolls of a single duck with iris in ink using a similar tarashikomi (puddled ink) technique. For examples of the Sotatsu versions see Yamane Yuzo, ed., Sotatsu-ha II in Rimpa kaiga zenshu (Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shimbunsha, 1978), fig. 215/no. 124 and nos. 125-27.

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