Lot Essay
PUBLISHED:
Shimada Shujiro, ed., Bukkyo kaiga, yamato-e, suibokuga (Buddhist paintings, yamato-e and ink paintings) vol. 1 of Zaigai Hiho (Japanese Paintings in Western Collections) (Tokyo: Gakken, 1969), p. 121.
These paintings are close in style to a pair of landscapes by Kantei in the Mary Griggs Burke Collection, New York, and to a pair formerly in the John B. Elliott Collection. For the Burke paintings see Miyeko Murase, Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art, exh,. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000), pl. 64.
Shimada Shujiro, ed., Bukkyo kaiga, yamato-e, suibokuga (Buddhist paintings, yamato-e and ink paintings) vol. 1 of Zaigai Hiho (Japanese Paintings in Western Collections) (Tokyo: Gakken, 1969), p. 121.
These paintings are close in style to a pair of landscapes by Kantei in the Mary Griggs Burke Collection, New York, and to a pair formerly in the John B. Elliott Collection. For the Burke paintings see Miyeko Murase, Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art, exh,. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000), pl. 64.