modern
Koi - CarpSigned: Kiichi
Seals: Kiichi
Technique: colours on silk 40 x 56.8
Mounting: pink damask and ocre silk 144 x 73.7
Box: signed double box
Condition: a litlttle chipped, otherwise good
additional papers unread
Kiichi was famous for his paintings of carps.
He was born in Kyoto and graduated the municipal School of painting (modern University of art). In 1920 he began under Tsuji Kako (1870-1931), while also attending oil painting courses at the Kansai Bijutsuin Yoga Kenkyusho. In 1927 he graduated the Kyoto Municipal Special School of painting, where he continued in the research department until 1935. After Kakô’s death, he came under the influence of Nishimura Goun (1877-1938). In 1937 he was drafted, but at his return from China two years later Goun too had passed away, and he entered the circle of Yamaguchi Kayô (1899-1984). In 1940 Kiichi performed at the National Exhibition for the first time and in the Nitten national exhibition of 1953 a painting of Koi was awarded. From 1954 he served as an adjudicator at the Nitten and he would was subsequently awarded there again in 1963 and 1967.
Reference:
Aburai p. 105
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