Fugai Ekun

Lot 155: Fugai Ekun (1568-C.1654)

Name: Fugai Ekun (1568-C.1654)
Brand: Christie's
SKU: 3gxz2ntvs8

Est: $12,000 USD - $18,000 USDSold:

Christie'sNew York, NY, USMarch 28, 2006

Item Overview

Description

Hotei
Inscribed and signed San tomo Fugai dojin, sealed Fugai
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
25 3/8 x 14 1/4 in. (64.5 x 36.3cm.)
Box authentication by Mizoguchi Teijiro, former director of the Tokyo National Museum, 1926

Artist or Maker

Fugai Ekun

Exhibited

Shirley Day Gallery, London, "400 years of Zen painting," 1976.12.8-18

PUBLISHED:
Okabe Hisashi, 400 years of Zen painting (London: Shirley Day Ltd., 1976), no.4.

Notes

John Stevens has translated Fugai's inscription as follows: "How gaily he smiles! He cannot be compared to anyone around here. His worldliness has no taint of vulgarity. Truly a man of innate good fortune."

Auction Details

Japanese Including Property of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Christie's

March 28, 2006, 12:00 AM EST

20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY, 10020, US

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