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PROPERTY OF A DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN
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KAWANABE KYOSAI (1831-1889)
An album of preparatory drawings and a tiger surimono
Comprising:
1) Thirty-nine sheets of drawings mounted as a double-sided
accordion album; ink and light color on paper; signed Seisei Kyosai
on 3 sheets and sealed Kyosai on 13 sheets
2) Plum flowers and painting goods in front of a tiger screen, woodblock
print, surimono, signed Seisei Kyosai ga and sealed, 1878
1) 12æ x 9 in. (32.4 x 22.9 cm.) each page approx.
2) Shikishiban surimono: 8√ x 11¿ in. (22.5 x 28.3 cm.) (39)
$6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE:
1) Dr. Adam August Breuer Collection, Berlin, before 1929
Paul Cassirer und Hugo Helbing Auction, Berlin, Die Sammlung
Dr. A. Breuer/ Berlin, Ostasiatische Kunst, 14-15 May 1929, lot 348
Charles Albert de Burlet (1882-1956), Berlin and Basel, acquired at
the above sale
Private Collection, Switzerland, by descent
Galerie Koller, Zurich, 18 November 1994, lot 357
Kyosai was apprenticed to Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861), then
Maemura Towa and Kano Tohaku who was the head of Surugadai
Kano School. He mastered his own distinctive style through
studying a great variety of paintings including the works by Kano,
Tosa, Rimpa, Maruyama-Shijo and Ukiyo-e Schools.