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Lacquer Tray by Important Artist Domoto Insho browse these categories for related items... Directory: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings: Pre 1950: item # 931255 Please refer to our stock # MOR2654 when inquiring.
The Kura 16-1 ShimoWakakusa-Cho Murasakino Kita-ku Kyoto 603-8234 tel.81-75-432-6980 Guest Book 1,550.00 |
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| Splashes of raw color decorate the dark black surface of this thin tray by Avant-garde Kyoto painter Domoto Insho enclosed in the original wooden box. The piece is 15-1/2 inches (39.5 cm) diameter and is in excellent condition. The artists brother was also a lacquer artist, and may have made this box for his sibling to paint. Insho (b. 1891) was a Kyoto artist, trained in the traditional Shijo manner, but not one to be bound by its rigidity. He studied at the Kyoto Municipal School of Fine Arts, and under the important artist Nishiyama Suishi. Consistently exhibitied at the large National exhibitions (Nitten, Bunten) while fighting for greater acceptance of artworks. He traveled to Europe in 1952, and was appointed a member of the Japan Art Academy and winner of the Imperial Fine Arts Academy Prize, ultimately receiving the Order of Cultural Merit (highest prize allocated to a civilian in Japan). His works moved steadily toward the abstract, as we will see with the next listing. A true Jiyu-gakka, he refused to be defined by any school and was incredibly influential in his time and perhaps even more so after. His works are held in the collection of many internationally renowned institutions including the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Tokyo National Museum and Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art. And in fact there is a museum dedicated to him in Kyoto, the Domoto Insho Museum. | |||||||||||
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