25. GAKUTEI (1786-1868). Still-life with book-shelf. (Sold)

YASHIMA GAKUTEI  (1786-1868)

An open book-shelf cabinet containing books, rolls of paper and
objects in front of a screen with the moon and breaking waves.
On the book-shelf a brush holder, an ink-stone, a statuette of a
Chinese sage and a vase with an adonis plant. The subject often
recurs in still-life surimono and is a celebration of the scholarly life
to which members of poets’ circles ideally aspired.

Woodblock colour print with metallic pigments details
Shikishiban surimono, 20,5x18,8 cm
Signed: Gakutei
Poems by Kasentei Mayoshi and Kyōkadō
Privately published
c. 1820

Other impressions are illustrated in Ostier. Les objets tranquilles,
no. 11 and Ohki. The Private World of Surimono, no. 81.
Another example is in The Harvard Art Museums, no. 1933.4.1689.
The large silver wave and moon on the screen are reminiscent of
another surimono by Gakutei from the Schoff Collection, illustrated
in McKee. Japanese Poetry Prints, no. 17.

Illustrated in our catalogue Surimono. Hokusai-Shinsai-Hokkei-Gakutei, 
September 2024, no. 25.

Very good impression and colour with metallic pigments, good condition

Status: Sold



Item: D 506