1930s Paintings and Screens

Vintage Framed Japanese Watercolour on Silk Signed , C.1960 Depicting cherry blossom, the national flower of Japan, and a sparrow in flight, a symbol of loyalty, friendship and prosp...

Vintage Framed Japanese Watercolour on Silk Signed C.1960 Depicting cherry blossom, the national flower of Japan, and a seated sparrow, a symbol of loyalty, friendship and prosperity...

Large Japanese Showa period six panel folding byobu screen depicting a grand mountain landscape with small village homes. Painted with natural color pigments over a gilt background. ...

Charming Japanese Showa period hand-painted panel depicting a persimmon branch with leaves. The branch is painted over a gilt background with an intentionally distressed patina to mi...

Magnificent Chinese scroll ancestor painting showing patriarch and matriarch of a high ranking status civil official. This unusual scroll depicts the dignitary couple seated below a ...

Serene Japanese Showa period four panel folding byobu screen depicting three quail amid autumn grasses and flowers (Chinese bell-flowers/Kikkyo and Pampas grass/obana). Made in the N...

Japanese Four Panel Byobu Screen, with hand-painted scenes of flowers within gilt borders, chop seal marks to each panel. Larger panels: 38.75" H x 17.25" W x 1" D. Provenance: From ...

Late Edo period 19th century Japanese six-panel landscape screen featuring a cypress tree over a flowering hibiscus with a pair of hototogisu birds. Kano school painted with ink and ...

Cherry Blossoms Kano Sanrakuki (1898-1981) Showa period, circa 1930 2-panel Japanese Screen Color, gofun and gold leaf on paper Against a backdrop of gold-leafed ground, the lichen covered trunk and branches of the life-sized cherry blossom tree reach out and beyond the confines of the pictorial surface. The overall composition has a feeling of flatness which draws emphasis to the surface and the three-dimensionality of the cherry blossoms. Painstakingly built-up layers of thickly applied shell-white gofun detail the voluminous blossoms and cover large areas of this tour-de-force of Japanese Nihonga painting. By simplifying the background, minimizing the number of colors and depicting the blossoms with such heavy relief, the artist has emphasized the stunning presence of the cherry tree. The type of tree depicted is the Yae-Zakura; a double-layered type of cherry blossom famed for its beauty and strength. When we think of Japanese cherry blossoms, the first thing that comes to mind is Somei Yoshino variety, which has a single flower with five almost white petals. This type is fragile and easily blown away by strong wind or rain. Most of the double-flowered cherry blossoms begin to bloom when the Somei-Yoshino falls, and the flowering period lasts longer than that of the Somei-Yoshino. Kano Sanrakuki originally studied painting at the Kyoto City Arts and Crafts School under the tutelage of Yamamoto Shunkyo...

Exquisite mid-20th century Showa period four panel folding byobu screen featuring a fruiting pomegranate tree over a dramatic cream toned background. Vivid ink and natural pigment co...

Korean Minhwa Spotted Leopard Snarling Magpie and another Magpie flying in the pine tree Minhwa, Korean folk paintings, portray the simple and unaffecte...

Gorgeous Japanese Showa period four-panel folding byobu screen depicting autumn foliage. The painting features flowering chrysanthemum (kiku), pampas grass (obena), brush clover (hag...