Name: NAKAMURA HOCHU (D. 1819)
Brand: Ten painted fans
Price: 22000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

Property of a Private New York Collection

NAKAMURA HOCHU (D. 1819)
Ten painted fans
Signed Hochu kore o utsusu; sealed Hochu and Ho
10 folding fans mounted as a two-panel screen; ink, color and gold on paper with tarashikomi (puddled ink)
67 x 60 ½ in.(170.2 x 153.6 cm.)

Provenance:
Leighton R. Longhi, Inc., New York

Literature:
Murashige Yasushi and Kobayashi Tadashi, Rimpa Painting, vol. 5 (Kyoto: Shikosha, 1992), no. 30

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Lot Essay

The fans have images of flowers, Hotei, Fukurokuju, New Year's festival and a courtier viewing maple leaves.

For other fan paintings by Hochu, see Lisa Rotundo-MCord, ed., An Enduring Vision: 17th to 20th Century Painting from the Gitter-Yelen Collection (New Orleans : New Orleans Museum of Art, 2002), pls. 88-89.