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Lot 346*
Terasaki Kogyo (1866-1919) Dated 1914
11 November 2010, 14:30 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £2,400 inc. premium
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Dated 1914
Kakejiku, sanpukutsui (a complete triptych), each painted in ink and colour on silk, the centre scroll depicting pine trees growing issuing from behind boulders besides a waterfall, signed Kogyo with two seals Katsube gashu and Kogyo, flanked by two scrolls painted with pine trees, one with a large serpentine trunk painted diagonally across the silk, the other with two truncated pine trees growing on a seashore, the right signed Kogyo with two same seals, and the left signed Taisho kinoe-tora haru hi, Kogyo with two same seals; with wood storage box. Each painting 113.7cm x 42cm (44¾in x 16½in). (4).
Kakejiku, sanpukutsui (a complete triptych), each painted in ink and colour on silk, the centre scroll depicting pine trees growing issuing from behind boulders besides a waterfall, signed Kogyo with two seals Katsube gashu and Kogyo, flanked by two scrolls painted with pine trees, one with a large serpentine trunk painted diagonally across the silk, the other with two truncated pine trees growing on a seashore, the right signed Kogyo with two same seals, and the left signed Taisho kinoe-tora haru hi, Kogyo with two same seals; with wood storage box. Each painting 113.7cm x 42cm (44¾in x 16½in). (4).
Footnotes
老松図 寺崎廣業筆 三幅対 絹本着色 大正3年(1914年)
Born in Akita Prefecture Terasaki Kogyo first began studying Kano School painting in Akita and after moving to Tokyo, studied under Hirafuku Suian. A creative and eclectic painter, Kogyo introduced a new perspective and feeling for abstraction to Nanga painting and greatly contributed to the foundation of the Nihon Bijutsuin (Japan Art Institute) together with Okakura Tenshin.
A pair of six-fold screens painted with a vertical thicket of bamboo tree trunks and pine trunks by the artist was sold in these rooms, 5 November 2009, lot 9.
























