Chinese landscape

The artist, Soga Shohaku, is considered one of the great eccentrics and innovators of the Edo period. A pair of six-panel screens by the same artist, depicting a similar idealized Chinese landscape, were sold at Christie’s New York in The Collection of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth Part I: Masterworks, 17 March 2015, lot 57. For more on Shohaku, with special attention to his antisocial behavior, see Miyeko Murase, “The Rebel Painter Soga Shohaku in the Powers Collection,” Unrivalled Splendor: The Kimiko and John Powers Collection of Japanese Art, Houston, 2013.