Author: [Kakemono 掛�物 - Hanging Scroll] Tsuda Seifū 津田�楓, artist
Title: Momohara" Landscape of a Mountain Stream, Dancing Cranes
Description: 1921. [Kakemono 掛ã�‘物 - Hanging Scroll] Tsuda SeifÅ« 津田é�’楓, artist "Momohara" Landscape of a Mountain Stream, Dancing Cranes TaishÅ� 10 [1921] Hanging scroll with the image size 135.2 X 33.4 cm. Beautifully mounted on brocade with bone jiku. The painting is signed and sealed by Tsuda SeifÅ« 津田é�’楓 (1880-1978), an extraordinarily influential artist and designer who not only painted in oils and in traditional watercolor on silk and paper, but also created designs and bookbindings. A protege of such masters as the designer Furuya KÅ�rin å�¤è°·ç´-é±— (1875-1910) and the author and poet Natsume SÅ�seki (1867-1916) and later an influence upon generations of creative artists, Tsuda SeifÅ« has here created a free and easy Nihonga work in color ink on silk, dated TaishÅ� 10 [1921] and sealed by him. Its eccentric spirit seems to have a touch of Tomioka Tessai å¯Oe岡鉄斎 (1836/7-1924) to it. Certainly they must have met, as SeifÅ« illustrated several design books with calligraphed encomia done by Tessai in the 1900s. It is also reminiscent of some of the book-bindings he was doing during the same period. The brushwork and calligraphy are first-rate and the presentation is impeccable. In a wooden box and worn outer cardboard slipcase with written title label. .

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