Lot 141: YOKOYAMA TAIKAN (1868-1958)

Yamaji-shitae [Sketch for a mountain path] Signed Kanoto-i shujitsu Yamaji shitae Taikan [Taikan, Sketch for a mountain path, autumn day in the kanoto-i year (1911)] and sealed Shokodo Hanging scroll, ink and colour on silk 57 3/8 x 253/4in. (147 x 65.5cm.) NOTES Registration label dai 55 go (Yokoyama Taikan Kinenkan); wood panel set into new box and inscribed Kinzotei Yui-cho Hara Otona Hara Daijin Yamaji-shitae Meiji yonjuyonnen Monbusho Bijutsu Tenrankai shuppin Taikan jidai [Respectfully presented to Master Hara of Yuimachi (Hara Sankei), exhibited at the Ministry of Education Art Exhibition in 1911, inscribed by Taikan] For the art patron and collector Hara Sankei (Tomitaro, 1868-1939), see Ellen P. Conant, Nihonga, Transcending the Past: Japanese-Style Painting, 1868-1968 (St. Louis, The St. Louis Art Museum, 1995), p.91 SALESROOM NOTICE Please note that the applicable VAT for this lot should be 5 and not 17.5 as indicated by the Alpha sign in the catalogue.