11th Nov, 2024 15:00
Pursuing Perfection, the Perino Collection
NAGASAWA ROSETSU (1754 — 1799)
Shamo
NAGASAWA ROSETSU (1754 — 1799)
Shamo
Japan, Edo period, circa 1795
A hanging scroll painting, kakejiku, ink and colour on silk, with a realistically depicted a fierce-looking young cockerel by a rugged rock beneath a blooming cherry tree, signed Rosetsu and sealed Gyo.
111cm x 49.5cm
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: featured in the exhibition catalogue Kakemono, Five centiuries of Japanese painting. The Perino Collection, p. 34, no 7.
Cockerel fights were a popular gambling pastime in Edo period and Shamo (軍鶏) - the name derived from Siam - is a type of domestic fowl imported from Thailand in early 17th century. The birds have been selectively bred for several hundred years and prized for their endurance and fighting spirit. The chicken depicted in the current painting is shown in a tense pose as if ready to pounce at a rival bird. It is spring as indicated by the blooming sakura tree and in bird calendar- a time to find a mate. The small feathers scattered around his feet suggest the altrication has already been in progress. The scroll is potentially a pair to another painting, most likely lost, but still able to tell the snippet of the story unfolding in front of us.
Rosetsu came from a line of a low-ranking samurai family and travelled to Kyoto to join the studio of Maruyama Ōkyo. His character was too big for the Maruyama school and the young painter left, finding employment with the feudal lord of Yodo and occasionally completing a commission for various temples. Similarly to Itō Jakuchū, Rosetsu has been a lay Zen pupil. The inspiration with Zenga is clearly visible in the more freely executed of Rosetsu's paintings.
His paintings are part of a number of important private and museum collections, such as the British Museum in London, the HArvard Art Museums in Cambridge, the Brooklyn Museum in New York and the Fuji Art Museum to name a few.
£12,000 - £18,000
Buyer's premium: 23.00%
NAGASAWA ROSETSU (1754 — 1799)
Shamo
Japan, Edo period, circa 1795
A hanging scroll painting, kakejiku, ink and colour on silk, with a realistically depicted a fierce-looking young cockerel by a rugged rock beneath a blooming cherry tree, signed Rosetsu and sealed Gyo.
111cm x 49.5cm
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: featured in the exhibition catalogue Kakemono, Five centiuries of Japanese painting. The Perino Collection, p. 34, no 7.
Cockerel fights were a popular gambling pastime in Edo period and Shamo (軍鶏) - the name derived from Siam - is a type of domestic fowl imported from Thailand in early 17th century. The birds have been selectively bred for several hundred years and prized for their endurance and fighting spirit. The chicken depicted in the current painting is shown in a tense pose as if ready to pounce at a rival bird. It is spring as indicated by the blooming sakura tree and in bird calendar- a time to find a mate. The small feathers scattered around his feet suggest the altrication has already been in progress. The scroll is potentially a pair to another painting, most likely lost, but still able to tell the snippet of the story unfolding in front of us.
Rosetsu came from a line of a low-ranking samurai family and travelled to Kyoto to join the studio of Maruyama Ōkyo. His character was too big for the Maruyama school and the young painter left, finding employment with the feudal lord of Yodo and occasionally completing a commission for various temples. Similarly to Itō Jakuchū, Rosetsu has been a lay Zen pupil. The inspiration with Zenga is clearly visible in the more freely executed of Rosetsu's paintings.
His paintings are part of a number of important private and museum collections, such as the British Museum in London, the HArvard Art Museums in Cambridge, the Brooklyn Museum in New York and the Fuji Art Museum to name a few.
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Auction: Pursuing Perfection, the Perino Collection, 11th Nov, 2024
PLEASE NOTE THE DATE OF THIS SALE IS YET TO BE CONFIRMED
We are thrilled to confirm the consignment of 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-two 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.
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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