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KAWAI JUSAI (ACTIVE CIRCA 1900-1903)
HOLLYHOCKS
A two-panel screen, ink and colour on silk with a butterfly amongst flowering hollyhocks, signed Jusai and sealed
172 x 174 cm.
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This exquisitely coloured screen is indicative of a modern interpretation of the Rimpa manner. Rimpa school was created by Tawaraya Sotatsu in the early 17th century, and since then it was revived twice in the late 17th and then 19th century and has been strongly influential throughout the early modern period and even today. Rimpa school masters painted traditional subjects, but presented them in a new stylised and bold manner. Tachi-aoi [hollyhocks] in this present lot are arranged vertically in statuesque rhythmic manner. The subject matter, subtly dynamic composition, rhythmic rendition, and colouring are characteristic of the Rimpa style of painting. Although little is known about the artist, it is recorded that Kawai Jusai exhibited at the Paris Great Exposition in 1900. 1

1. The Department of Art, Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties ed., Catalogues of objects exhibited at the National Industrial Expositions in the Meiji Era, (Tokyo, 1997)

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