Spring and Winter in Higashiyama

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HIRAI BAISEN (1889-1969)
Spring and Winter in Higashiyama
Each signed and sealed Baisen
A pair of six-panel screens; ink, color and gold leaf on silk
68 3/8 x 143 ½ in. (173.7 x 364.6 cm.) each approx.
(2)With a wood box, titled Higashiyama haru fuyu and signed Baisen saku

Provenance

Christie's eCommerce, 4-11 December 2018, lot 9

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Lot Essay

Having studied at Kyoto Prefectural School of Arts and Crafts (currently Kyoto City Unversity of Arts), Hirai won a prize at the Bunten only one year after graduation. He went on to become a regular prize winner at both the Bunten and Teiten and also actively worked to establish an artist organisation called Toka-kai with Irie Hako (1887-1948) and Sakakibara Shiho (1887-1971).
For a pair of screens in The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto dated 1919 visit
https://search.artmuseums.go.jp/records.php?sakuhin=150784

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