TWO MONKEYS PLAYING WITH A FROG
EDO PERIOD
£2,500
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art
Auction: 14 May 2021 at 11:00 BST
Description
森狙仙 雙猴戲蛙圖 設色紙本 鏡框
ink and colour on paper, framed, signed Sosen and sealed Reimyo lower right
Dimensions
43cm x 52cm
Footnote
Provenance: Private Scottish collection, Dundee
Note: Mori Sosen, active in the Osaka area, did many paintings of animals based on sketches from life and was especially known for his pictures of monkeys, deer being his next favourite theme. In about 1808, at the age of sixty-one, he even changed the first character of his name to one meaning 'monkey'. He also founded a school of animal painting with his brother Shuho, in Osaka, which paralleled the Maruyama school in Kyoto. Maruyama-Shijo School