Description: 1730-1781
All vertical in ink on paper, all depicting a mountainous river landscape with scholars, based on Shan shui painting. All bearing seal.
H. 136 x W. 56 cm
H. 136 x W. 56 cm
H. 135 x W. 50.5 cm
H. 136 x W. 55 cm
Provenance:
- Frank Lloyd Wright, United States
- Felix Tikotin, Amsterdam
- Collection Peter Poldervaart, Amsterdam
Note:
Perhaps no individual in the U.S. did more to shape Americans’ visions of the screen format than architect Frank Lloyd Wright. In many of the rooms of his house, Japanese screens of various heights, stretched flat, were placed on the wall, newly framed by him. Sometimes Wright designed wooden slats to hit the screen at the folds of each panel. He had been incorporating Japanese screens into rooms in this manner since at least his 1906 proposal for the remodelling of the Peter A. Beachy house in Oak Park, Illinois.
These four paintings were part of two multi-panel 'Shohaku folding screens' by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), who transported them fro