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KAWABE KADO (1893-1962)
Doves
Signed Taisho hinoetora harujitsu Kado ga and sealed Kado
Two-panel screen; ink, color, gofun and gold on paper
63¬ x 67æ in. (161.5 x 172.1 cm.)
$10,000-20,000

PROVENANCE:
Hosokawa Rikizo Collection
Meguro Gajoen Museum of Art, Tokyo
Born in Kyoto, Kawabe Kado graduated from the Kyoto
Municipal Special School of Painting. He was a pupil of
Kikuchi Keigetsu, and an exhibitor at the Bunten, Teiten,
Shin-Bunten and Nitten. Kado employs a startling pointillist
technique extensively in this painting to render the sand, upper
ground, lichens and mounded ground covers. Gofun in raised
work details the feathers of the doves, portions of the rocks, and
some of the vegetation. For emphasis mica is mixed into some
of the pigments, and washes of gold warm the surfaces of rocks.
The angular treatment of these echoes a cubist sensibility.

A screen by Akita Senkyo with a very similar scene of doves
on a garden basin was exhibited at the Teiten in 1928, and is
illustrated in Nittenshi, Vol. 8, p. 278, no. 5. This suggests that
Kado may have exhibited this screen earlier, perhaps in 1926 or
1927.

European pointillism may have influenced Kado, though the
technique is perfectly incorporated here into the vocabulary of
Nihonga painting.