Mountain Massif in Morning Mist
Sold – no longer available
This piece was a handmade one-of-a-kind work. It cannot be reordered and will never exist in this form again. The page stays online as part of our archive.
You might like these pieces
Details about the sold piece
- Height 128 cm
- Width 62 cm
- Item Type Kakemono
- Jikusaki Sculpture
- Material Honshi Silk
- Period of Creation Shôwa (1926–1989)
- Technique Hand-Painted
- Unique Work Yes
- Wooden Box Yes
No longer available
Description
A massive mountain range rises out of billowing morning mist, while small birds move through the air in the distance. At the lower edge of the image, dark pine silhouettes reach into the picture, providing a grounding counterpoint to the light, almost weightless mountain peaks that seem to float in the hazy white of the sky.
Using loosely applied, broad ink washes on silk, the painter achieves an almost impressionistic effect that stands in clear contrast to strictly linear landscape painting. Rather than fine detail, it is the surface that dominates, from which forms only emerge on closer inspection. The small signature and red seal at the right edge of the image place the work in the Shōwa period.
The kakemono comes in a wooden box (tomobako) signed by the artist and is mounted with brown borders and runners made of synthetic fabric. An evocative piece for anyone who appreciates reduced, atmospheric landscape painting and wishes to lend their own home a quiet sense of expanse, without relying on color or an abundance of detail.
