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| Artist: | Kato Eika (1869-1942 watercolour) |
| Title: | Spring in Kyoto |
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| Date of first edition?: | 1925 |
| 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: | 40417 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
Saturday, 17 March 2007
Original Watercolour Painting by E. Kato
Date: c. 1925
Artist: signed E. Kato in the lower left corner
Watercolour on paper, showing Japanese landscape with a house, cherry-tree in bloom and a woman with her child on the path. Professionally mounted and framed, with a printed gallery label on the reverse: "Spring in Kyoto" Original watercolour ca. 1925 by E. Kato (19th/20th century landscape artist. Signature in ink / rice vellum. Japan).
Dimensions: with the frame 63.4 by 46 cm; approximate dimensions without frame 49 by 32.5 cm.
Condition: excellent (unexamined out of frame) |
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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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