31st Mar, 2025 11:00
Pursuing Perfection, the Perino Collection
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TA 5% Vat. MARUYAMA ŌZUI (1766 — 1829)
A Carp and a Waterfall
MARUYAMA ŌZUI (1766 — 1829)
A Carp and a Waterfall
Dated 5th month 1799
A Japanese hanging scroll painting, kakejiku, ink on paper, with a single carp ascending a waterfall in an attempt of transform into a dragon, his body partly obscured by the cascading water creating a powerful minimalist image, signed Ōzui, sealed Ōzui, dated Kansei hitsuji chūka to the lower left, contained in a box.
Image 103cm x 32cm; total 185cm x 43cm (3)
Provenance: the Claudio Perino Collection, Turin, acquired mostly in Japan in early 2000s.
Exhibited: MAO Museo d'Arte Orientale, Turin, and MUSEC Museo delle Culture, Lugano, 2020 - 2022.
Literature: the exhibition catalogue Kakemono, Five centiuries of Japanese painting. The Perino Collection, p. 193, no 180.
A similar painting dated 1789 is housed at the Daijō-ji Temple in Hyōgo.
A very similar image by Ōzui's father, Maruyama Ōkyo was offered at Bonhams London on 11th May 2010, lot 149.
The son of the founder of the Maruyama school, Maruyama Ōkyo (1733-1795), Ōzui studied under his father in Kyoto. The Maruyama school encouraged artists to create images from nature, realistically rendering light, shadow and form. Though Ōkyo’s realism was criticised by some as overly preoccupied with the natural world, creating ‘undignified’ images, works from the Maruyama school proved popular with the public with many high profile commissions leading to Maruyama’s style becoming one of the most influential of early modern Japanese painting.
The theme of carp ascending a waterfall proved popular with both father and son. Ōkyo painted several images of carp, most notably a pair of scrolls dated 1789 in the Daijō-ji temple in Hyōgo. The influence of his father’s works can be seen in Ōzui’s own depiction of the subject in the ‘Carp Room’, also in the Daijō-ji temple, painted in 1790.
This lot has been imported from outside the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission (TA) regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. Standard VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium. Buyers are invited to familiarise themselves with these rules prior to bidding.
Sold for £3,198
MARUYAMA ŌZUI (1766 — 1829)
A Carp and a Waterfall
Dated 5th month 1799
A Japanese hanging scroll painting, kakejiku, ink on paper, with a single carp ascending a waterfall in an attempt of transform into a dragon, his body partly obscured by the cascading water creating a powerful minimalist image, signed Ōzui, sealed Ōzui, dated Kansei hitsuji chūka to the lower left, contained in a box.
Image 103cm x 32cm; total 185cm x 43cm (3)
Provenance: the Claudio Perino Collection, Turin, acquired mostly in Japan in early 2000s.
Exhibited: MAO Museo d'Arte Orientale, Turin, and MUSEC Museo delle Culture, Lugano, 2020 - 2022.
Literature: the exhibition catalogue Kakemono, Five centiuries of Japanese painting. The Perino Collection, p. 193, no 180.
A similar painting dated 1789 is housed at the Daijō-ji Temple in Hyōgo.
A very similar image by Ōzui's father, Maruyama Ōkyo was offered at Bonhams London on 11th May 2010, lot 149.
The son of the founder of the Maruyama school, Maruyama Ōkyo (1733-1795), Ōzui studied under his father in Kyoto. The Maruyama school encouraged artists to create images from nature, realistically rendering light, shadow and form. Though Ōkyo’s realism was criticised by some as overly preoccupied with the natural world, creating ‘undignified’ images, works from the Maruyama school proved popular with the public with many high profile commissions leading to Maruyama’s style becoming one of the most influential of early modern Japanese painting.
The theme of carp ascending a waterfall proved popular with both father and son. Ōkyo painted several images of carp, most notably a pair of scrolls dated 1789 in the Daijō-ji temple in Hyōgo. The influence of his father’s works can be seen in Ōzui’s own depiction of the subject in the ‘Carp Room’, also in the Daijō-ji temple, painted in 1790.
This lot has been imported from outside the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission (TA) regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. Standard VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium. Buyers are invited to familiarise themselves with these rules prior to bidding.
Auction: Pursuing Perfection, the Perino Collection, 31st Mar, 2025
We are thrilled to offer a selection of pieces from a distinguished Italian private collection of East Asian art.
Dr Claudio Perino begun collecting in the early 2000s. His interest in Japanese lacquer soon transitioned into woodblock prints and ceramics, eventually focusing on paintings from the Edo and Meiji periods.
Always eager to share the joy of experiencing his treasures, Dr Perino exhibited his lacquer, prints and paintings at the MAO - Museum of Oriental Art in Turin between 2008 - 2023. The twenty-four paintings featured in the current sale were a part of a large exhibition curated by Prof Matthi Forrer at the Museo delle Culture in Lugano and later the Torinian MAO between 2020 - 2022.
Among the sixty-seven lots presented here, there are a few pieces of Korean ceramics. Chinese art is represented among others by a porcelain plaque by Wang Qi, an early Qingbai ewer and two important Qing Dynasty embroidered silk robes.
Lots 38 and 40 will be a subject to a deposit payable at least 24hours before the auction day.
All lots are sold under Temporary Admission. Additional 5% is added on the hammer price, standard 20% VAT applies to our Buyer's Premium of 23%.
For any questions relating to the sale, please contact the Head of the Japanese Department, Marta Somauroo at marta@azcaauctions.com.
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