Artist unknown (19th Century)

Tigers

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Artist unknown (19th Century)
Tigers
Each signed Heian Maruyama Mondo, sealed Heian no hito tei in azana Chukin and Kaiun
Pair of six-panel screens; ink, color and gold on paper
60¼ x 136¼in. (153 x 346cm.) each (2)

Lot Essay

This screen is almost identical to a screen of the same subject and composition by Maruyama Okyo (see lot 113). The artist was presumably a followers of Okyo. For Okyo's tiger screen, see Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, Mainichi shinbunsha and NHK, eds., Tokubetsuten Maruyama Okyo--Shaseiga sozo eno chosen/Special Exhibition Maruyama Okyo: Shaseiga--Challenging a New Frontier (Tokyo: Mainichi shinbunsha and NHK, 2003), pl. 58.

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