HOZAN (1875-1920). Album of paintings. (Sold)
Artist:
Uejima Hozan (1875-1920)
Title:
Untitled.
Description:
A fine large album with twelve paintings on silk probably related to the twelve months. Each painting is signed Hozan with artist’s seal. The subjects are: Travelling sambaso dancers, Boys with kite, Ohara woman with horse, Women gathering shells, Children with hobby-horse, Bijin on the veranda, Country dancers, Woman and child, Woman with kinuta, Geisha and attendant, Boys and snow-puppet, Man firing a kiln.
Signature:
Each painting signed Hozan and artist seal.
Date:
1900 ca.
Size:
One orihon album of paintings, complete, 42x32 cm.
Medium:
Painting on silk.
Remarks:
Hozan was a painter from Osaka. By the time he died he was equally famous as Uemura Shoen (1875-1949) but unjustly soon forgotten.
Conditions:
Fine conditions.
Item no:
MG 479
Status:
Sold