SESSON SHUKEI (1504-1589)
SESSON SHUKEI (1504-1589)
SESSON SHUKEI (1504-1589)
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SESSON SHUKEI (1504-1589)

One-petal Kannon (The Bodhisattva Kannon Crossing the Seat on a Lotus Petal)

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SESSON SHUKEI (1504-1589)
One-petal Kannon (The Bodhisattva Kannon Crossing the Seat on a Lotus Petal)
Hanging scroll, ink on paper, signed and sealed
28 ½ x 14 in. (72.4 x 35.6 cm.)
Provenance
Matsuzawa Family Collection.
S. Yabumoto Ltd., Tokyo.
Mathias Komor, New York, 7 March 1975.
The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago.
Literature
Matsuzawa Collection Auction Catalogue, Tokyo Art Club, Tokyo, 1919, no. 7.
Tokyo National Museum, Sesson: Exhibition of Paintings by Sesson Shukei (1504-ca. 1589), Tokyo, 1974, no. 36.
S. Little, The Alsdorf Collection of Japanese Paintings, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, 2003, p. 14-15, no. 7.
Exhibited
Tokyo, Tokyo National Museum, Sesson: Exhibition of Paintings by Sesson Shukei (1504-ca. 1589), 31 July-1 September 1974.
Honolulu, Honolulu Academy of Arts, The Alsdorf Collection of Japanese Paintings, 14 January-28 March 2004.
Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Japanese Art from the Alsdorf Collection, Gallery 273, 2 July-12 September 2004.
Delray Beach, Florida, The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, Japanese Paintings from the Collection of Mrs. Marilynn Alsdorf, 3 October-31 December 2006.

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