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Kubo SHUNMAN
(Japan 1757–1820)
- Title
- Courtesan standing beneath a tree
- Other titles:
- Oiran standing beneath a tree
- Place of origin
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Japan
- Period
- Edo (Tokugawa) period 1615 - 1868 → Japan
- Year
- circa 1800
- Media categories
- Painting, Calligraphy
- Materials used
- hanging scroll; ink and slight colour on silk
- Dimensions
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94.3 x 31.7cm image; 175.0 x 42.5 x 47.5cm scroll [height x width x rod]
- Signature & date
- Signed l.r., in Japanese, [inscribed in ink], "Shumman [artist's seal]". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1980
- Accession number
- 39.1980
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (5)
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Jackie Menzies (Australia) (Author), Art of the Brush - Chinese & Japanese painting calligraphy, Sydney, 1995, 24 (illus.).
Jackie Menzies (Australia) (Author), The Floating World: Japan's world of transient pleasures, Sydney, 1994. cat.no. C26
'Japanese Painting', pg. 53-69., Asian Collection Handbook, Art Gallery of New South Wales 1990, 1990, 62 (illus.).
'Recent Japanese Acquisitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales' by Jackie Menzies, pg. 90-95., The Australian Antique Collector Jan 1981-Jun 1981, Jan 1981-Jun 1981, 94 (illus.).
Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874) (Author), Three years on: a selection of acquisitions 1978-1981, Sydney, 1981, 100 (illus.), 101. cat.no. 31
- Exhibition history (5)
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The Floating World Revisited, Portland Art Museum, 26 Oct 1993–30 Dec 1993.
The Floating World Revisited, Cleveland Museum of Art, 02 Feb 1994–03 Apr 1994.
The Floating World: Japan's World of transient pleasures, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 25 May 1994–17 Jul 1994.
Art of the brush, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 23 Sep 1995–12 Nov 1995.
Beauty and Desire in Edo period Japan, National Gallery of Australia, 06 Jun 1998–09 Aug 1998.
