YOKOYAMA TAIKAN (1868-1958)

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YOKOYAMA TAIKAN (1868-1958)

Setsu yo (last of the snow)

Signed Taikan and sealed, registration no. on reverse Ku dai 62 go--ink and white pigment on silk, mounted as a hanging scroll
50 x 16 1/2in. (127 x 42cm.)

Two wood storage boxes, the inner box title Setsu yo, signed Taikan dai and sealed

拍品專文

This or another extremely close version is published in Yokoyama Taikan Kinenkan, Nihon no Kyosho: Yokoyama Taikan (Bijutsu Nenkansha, 1985), "Overview of Works" section, p. 106 bottom row. That work is also titled "Last of the snow" and is dated to 1933. Taikan's interest in capturing the effects of seasonal change began with his morotai painting, and it remained an important aspect of his style.