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Shiba Senshū, Pine in Rain, 1910s–20s

Offered by: Thomsen Gallery

Description
Pine in Rain, 1910s–20s
Ink and shell powder on silk, mounted as a panel with silk brocade
Image size 54½ x 26¼ in. (139 x 67.3 cm)
Panel size 62¼ x 34 in. (158 x 86.5 cm)
T-3814
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Senshū first studied Japanese-style painting under Katō Gennosuke, then Western-style painting under the leading Meiji-era painter Asai Chū with Asai Chū. Senshū was particularly interested in pencil drawing and gained a formidable reputation for his skill in this medium. Together with other young Nihonga painters he formed a group that developed into the association Heigogakai which held regular exhibitions from 1907 to 1912. In 1919 Senshū submitted a painting to the first Teiten national art exhibition that showed his style to be developing in a more traditional direction, and it was from this time that he started to create designs for Yūzen textile dyeing. An exhibition of Senshū’s pencil drawings, watercolors, and Nihonga-style paintings was held in 2008 at Sakura City Museum of Art. The present scroll deftly adapts Senshū’s skill with the pencil and applies it to the traditional medium of brush and ink, producing an effect which is both naturalistic and meditative.

More Information

Period:	1900-1919
Creation Date:	1910s–20s
Styles / Movements:	Modern, Asian
Incollect Reference #:	558705

Dimensions

W.	34 in;	H.	62.25 in;
W.	86.36 cm;	H.	158.12 cm;

Message from Seller:

Thomsen gallery, located in a townhouse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, offers important Japanese paintings and works of art to collectors and museums worldwide. The gallery specializes in Japanese screens and scrolls; in early Japanese tea ceramics from the medieval through the Edo periods; in masterpieces of ikebana bamboo baskets; and in gold lacquer objects.