DOI Heft:
No. 303 (June 1918)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21265#0039
Studio- Talk
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LANDSCAPE SCREEN PAINTING BY SESSHYU
{Sold for 46,000 yen at the Marquis Satake sale, Tokyo)
portrait painting, the character and personality in this painting. How effective are the bend-
of each poet being shown with remarkable skill, ing tree, the stretched sail, and the swelling
It was rumoured that the rolls were to be cut and dashing sea, all depicted with a few lines,
into pieces and made into kakemono to be It shows what- a master can do with a few
possessed by several collectors. If this should strokes on a small piece of paper. It may be
ever come to pass it will be a great misfortune, noted in this connexion that there is a strong
A two-panelled screen by Korin of Thirty-six tendency now, as one of the results of the art
Poets fetched 66,100 yen. It shows his wonder- exhibitions now in vogue, to paint on big
ful facility with the brush, and keen sense of surfaces. The pictures of contemporary artists
linear composition and colour harmony. have grown so large in size that most of them are
- quite inadequate for the tokonoma for which they
The gem of the whole collection was A Sailing- are meant. Moreover, many of the modern works
Boat by Sesson, a very small kakemono, which are thin, scattered, and incoherent. To painters
fetched the sum of 52,300 yen. Seldom has an of this class of work Sesson's Sailing-Boat seemed
artist painted wind so graphically as has Sesson to carry a strong and precious message.
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t.. "til
LANDSCAPE SCREEN PAINTING BY SESSHYU
{Sold for 46,000 yen at the Marquis Satake sale, Tokyo)
portrait painting, the character and personality in this painting. How effective are the bend-
of each poet being shown with remarkable skill, ing tree, the stretched sail, and the swelling
It was rumoured that the rolls were to be cut and dashing sea, all depicted with a few lines,
into pieces and made into kakemono to be It shows what- a master can do with a few
possessed by several collectors. If this should strokes on a small piece of paper. It may be
ever come to pass it will be a great misfortune, noted in this connexion that there is a strong
A two-panelled screen by Korin of Thirty-six tendency now, as one of the results of the art
Poets fetched 66,100 yen. It shows his wonder- exhibitions now in vogue, to paint on big
ful facility with the brush, and keen sense of surfaces. The pictures of contemporary artists
linear composition and colour harmony. have grown so large in size that most of them are
- quite inadequate for the tokonoma for which they
The gem of the whole collection was A Sailing- are meant. Moreover, many of the modern works
Boat by Sesson, a very small kakemono, which are thin, scattered, and incoherent. To painters
fetched the sum of 52,300 yen. Seldom has an of this class of work Sesson's Sailing-Boat seemed
artist painted wind so graphically as has Sesson to carry a strong and precious message.
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