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Lot 2083

Matsumura Goshun (1752-1811), Okamoto Toyohiko (1773-1845), Matsumura Keibum (1775-1834) and Oku Bunmei (?-1813)
Five Animals, c. 1805

20 March 2012, 13:00 EDT
New York

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Matsumura Goshun (1752-1811), Okamoto Toyohiko (1773-1845), Matsumura Keibum (1775-1834) and Oku Bunmei (?-1813)

Five Animals, c. 1805
Two-panel screen; ink and light color on paper; depicting a stag, a mole, a tiger, a dog and a deer; signed Toyohiko, Goshun, Toyo, Bunmei and Keibun, and sealed Toyo, Hiko, Keibun, Bun and Mei 33 3/8 x 64in (82.2 x 162.6cm)

Footnotes

The artists' signatures appear beside the animal(s) they painted: Toyohiko - stag; Goshun - mole; Keibun - tiger and dog; Bunmei - monkey.

A similar example of a pair of screens painted in collaboration by Goshun, Ganku, Toyo, Keibun and Toyohiko is housed in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: 11.8174, Bigelow Collection; and 11.4736, Fenollosa-Weld Collection, see Robert t. Paine, Jr., A Catalogue of Special Exhibition of Japanese Screen Paintings (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 1935), no. 35a & b.

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