Koromogae (Seasonal change of clothing), 1940

Details

Suzuki Yasuyuki (1911-1980)
Koromogae (Seasonal change of clothing), 1940
Signed and sealed Yasuyuki
Ink and color on paper, framed
82¾ x 69 5/8in. (210.5 x 177cm.)

Provenance

Hosokawa Rikizo Collection
Meguro Gajoen Musuem of Art, Tokyo

Exhibited

Tokyo Municipal Museum, Ueno Park, "Kigen nisen roppyakunen hoshuku nihonga taiten" (Exhibition of the 2600th-anniversary of the imperial family), 1940.10.1-11.24

Karatsu City Modern Library Art Hall (Karatsushi kindai toshokan bijutsu horu), "Meguro Gajoen bijutsukan korekushon ni yoru: Kindai Nihonga ni miru bijinga" (Modern Japanese-style beauty paintings from the collection of the Meguro Gajoen Museum of Art), 1999.1.14-12.13

PUBLISHED:
Hosono Masanobu et al., Kindai no bijinga: Meguro Gajoen Korekushon /Paintings of Japanese Beauties at the Turn of the Century (Kyoto: Kyoto shoin, 1998), pl. 219.

Karatsu City Modern Library, ed., Meguro Gajoen bijutsukan korekushon ni yoru: Kindai Nihonga ni miru bijinga (Modern Japanese-style beauty paintings from the collection of the Meguro Gajoen Museum of Art) (Karatsu: Karatsu City Modern Library, 1999), pl. 29.

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

Lot Essay

Born in Tokyo, Yasuyuki became a favored pupil of the Nihonga painter Ito Shinsui and lived with the master in 1931. He first studied beauty painting, then changed to seascapes and children. He won a prize for his painting Gyosen (Fishing boat) in the sixth Bunten in 1943.

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