Wanderer in the Rain

Name: Wanderer in the Rain
SKU: 3498
Price: 120.00 EUR
Availability: OutOfStock

Kakemono, unique work, 195 x 50 cm

Product number: 3498

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Details about the sold piece

Height 195 cm
Width 50 cm
Item Type Kakemono
Jikusaki Wood
Material Honshi Paper
Period of Creation Shôwa (1926–1989)
Technique Hand-Painted
Unique Work Yes

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Description

With arm outstretched, a figure wearing a pointed straw hat and carrying a bundle over the shoulder trudges through a landscape crossed by fine lines of rain, while a single bird flies away over wooded hills. The restrained palette, held in muted brown tones, makes the weather almost palpable.

Traveling wanderers set against a rural backdrop are a popular motif in Japanese genre painting, symbolizing the transience of the journey as well as perseverance and the close bond between man and the moods of nature. The terse, seemingly dashed-off brushstrokes heighten the impression of a fleeting, atmospheric snapshot.

The Kakemono was hand-painted on paper during the Shôwa period and is fitted with wooden jikusaki. The clear pictorial composition and the confident linework suggest a painter familiar with genre scenes. As a unique work, this hanging scroll conveys a quiet, almost poetic mood of rural Japanese life.

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Why does the date of creation sometimes not match the artist's dates

Because the two pieces of information speak about different things: the period designation describes the object – support, colors, condition – while the signature reflects which name appears on the painting. In most cases there is no attempt at deception behind this, but rather Japanese painting training: copying from workshop models was the curriculum for centuries, an utsushi is regarded as a bow to the teacher, workshops signed with the master's name, and artist names were passed down within a school. Such a hanging scroll is therefore not a forgery, but a hand-painted one-of-a-kind that continues the formal language of its school – just not the work of the famous name, and priced accordingly. We explain this in detail in the guide Why does a kakemono often bear the signature of an artist long deceased?.

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