Watanabe Kazan

Lot 146: Portrait of Liu Bei (Ryubi Gentoku)

Name: Portrait of Liu Bei (Ryubi Gentoku)
Brand: Christie's
SKU: 859647a92m

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

Christie'sNew York, NY, USMarch 18, 2008

Item Overview

Description

Watanabe Kazan (1793-1841)
Portrait of Liu Bei (Ryubi Gentoku)
Signed Kazan and sealed Noboru
Hanging scroll; ink and slight color on paper
36 x 12in. (91.5 x 30.5cm.)

Artist or Maker

Watanabe Kazan

Exhibited

Homma Museum, Sakata City, "Kaiin suisho kobijutsu ten" (Exhibition of antiques recommended by museum members), 1964.9.15-27

PUBLISHED:
Yoshizawa Tadashi, "Watanabe Kazan hitsu Ryubi zo" (Portrait of Liu Bei by Watanabe Kazan), Kokka 867 (June 1964): pl. 7.

Notes

Liu Bei (161-223) was a powerful warlord and the founding emperor of the Kingdom of Shu during the Three Kingdoms era in ancient China. In the 14th-century novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms , Liu Bei was portrayed as a virtuous and charismatic man who rose from a humble straw weaver to emperor. He was praised for loyalty and compassion, Confucian moral values. Liu Bei became a popular figure in Chinese opera and folklore.

Auction Details

Japanese And Korean Art

Christie's

March 18, 2008, 12:00 PM EST

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

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