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| Artist: | Kato Eika (1869-1942 watercolour) |
| Title: | Night market river scene |
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| Date of first edition?: | circa 1910-1930 |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Self |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Self |
| Medium (first edition): | Watercolour |
| Medium (this edition): | Watercolour |
| Format (first edition): | Large Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Large Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 40130 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
Rare1920's Japanese Watercolor Night Scene by E. Kato
A beautiful watercolor of a night Street scene in a Japanese town, painted in the 1920's.
This watercolour was done in a Western watercolour technique, on European watercolour
paper and with European watercolour paint. Most watercolours are signed in a Western
way in Roman letters. They are made from 1890 till the end of the 1920s by artists with a
Western style education, at Art schools in Japan by Western teachers. This painting is
signed E.Kato MEASUREMENTS: Paper size 19 1/4" inches by 12 3/4" inches
…CONDITION: Excellent. |
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| Artist Bio: |
1869, April - Born Saichiro Kato, he took Eika Kato as a pseudonym.
1886 - Learnt watercolor painting from Toru Azukisawa.
1888 - Moved to Yokohama.
1889 - Learnt Japanese style painting techniques from Beisen Kubota.
1892, September - Married Kiku Tanaka.
1909, March - Announced an exhibition of 50 watercolours.
1910~ - Extend over several decades, painted watercolours in Hong Kong.
1942, September - Died at the age of 74. Buried in Kuboyama cemetery.
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