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MARUYAMA ŌZUI (1766 — 1829)
A Carp and a Waterfall
Dated 5th month 1799
A Japanese...
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MARUYAMA ŌZUI (1766 — 1829)
A Carp and a Waterfall
Dated 5th month 1799
A Japanese hanging scroll painting,
kakejiku
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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.
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