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MATSUBAYASHI KEIGETSU (1876-1963) One of the most influential and innovative twentieth-century artists
in the Nanga tradition (which based itself on Chinese ‘literati’ brush
BAMBOO AND ROCK
Showa era (1926-1989), May 1946 painting) Matsubayashi Keigetsu formed the Nihon Nangakai (Japan
A four-panel folding screen, ink on gold-washed silk, depicting slender Nanga Association in 1906) and was a consistent exhibitor at the
leafy culms of bamboo around a rugged rock and gnarled tree trunk, Bunten official national salon and its successor iterations from 1908
inscribed with a 20-character Chinese poem on the same subject, until 1956, becoming a juror in 1919 and President of the Imperial Art
dated Showa hinoe-inu shoka (May 1946), signed Keigetsu Sanjin Academy in 1937. He was one of the last individuals to be appointed
(Keigetsu the Recluse), sealed Atsushi no in and Keigetsu, and with a (in 1944) to the order of Teishitsu Gigeiin (Artist-Craftsman to the
further seal at far left. Overall: 175cm x 286cm (68 7/8in x 112 5/8in); Imperial Household) and received many further honours during his
image: 171cm x 282.2cm (67¼in x 111 1/8in). prolific postwar career.

£15,000 - 18,000 Illustrated on page 117.
JPY2,000,000 - 2,400,000
US$18,000 - 22,000

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