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Beautiful Scenes of the Four Seasons at a Glance,
1882
This monumental landscape painting is dominated by jagged rocks, boulders, and mountains that are painted with angular, repeating ax-cut strokes. The resulting impression is of a landscape that is alive, with searing rock forms moving through swirling, thick mists. The artist, Kano Eitoku Tatsunobu, belonged to the Kano workshop, one of the most important and long-lived schools in Japan. The workshop was founded in Kyoto in the late fifteenth century, and its painters created works for prominent Zen Buddhist temples and secured lucrative contracts to paint for the shoguns.
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1882
Asia, Japan, Kyoto
–2017 Seikado Gallery (Kyoto, Japan), sold to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2017.
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