14th Jun, 2024 10:00
Fine Japanese Art
80
HIGASHI TAKESONOSAI: A WOVEN BAMBOO HANGING HANAKAGO (FLOWER BASKET)
Sold for €2,080
including Buyer's Premium
By Higashi Takesonosai (1915-200), signed Takesonosai
Japan, Showa period (1926-1989)
Finely woven in ara-ami to form a rounded basket with a short-woven rattan handle to one side for suspension, the basket made from shichiku (purple) and kuroshiku (black) bamboo strips. Signed to the underside TAKESONOSAI.
HEIGHT 15.5 cm
Condition: Very good condition with minor wear, the upper back interior with a break to a bamboo strip.
Provenance: TAI Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. From a private collection, acquired from the above in 2010. A copy of the invoice from TAI Gallery, dated 4 January 2010 and stating a purchase price of USD 2,550, accompanies this lot. TAI Gallery was founded by Robert T. Coffland, a leading expert in Japanese bamboo arts in the West, who began sourcing works from contemporary masters in Japan. In 2014, the gallery was purchased by Margo Thoma, merged with her own gallery Eight Modern, and rebranded as TAI Modern. Together with Koichiro Okada, a renowned bamboo expert, they support bamboo art in the West by serving as an advisor to Western collectors and institutions, facilitating public demonstrations, and curating bamboo art exhibitions. Works by TAI Modern artists have been placed in some of the country’s most prestigious institutions, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Asian Art Museum, and many more. Eleanor Koffler was the co-author of the book ‘Freeing the Angel from the Stone: A Guide to Piccirilli Sculpture in New York City’ and an avid collector of Western, Native American, and Asian art.
Higashi Takesonosai (1915-2003), Kyoto, was a prolific, widely honored master, best known for his unique structural compositions made with parallel construction. Higashi Takesonosai is considered one of the leading bamboo artists of the later twentieth century. He received an early training from the Kyoto based basket makers Kaneka Chikkasai (dates unknown) and Wada Rinshi (dates unknown) and began to develop his own creative style as early as the 1930s. His first solo exhibition as an independent artist was in 1937. His first participation in the prestigious National Exhibition (Nitten) was in 1952. Since then, he gradually began to move from Chinese-style objects (karamono) to a range of expressive new techniques.
Literature comparison:
Compare a related bamboo and rattan basket by Higashi Takesonosai, 1971, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 2019.424.10.
By Higashi Takesonosai (1915-200), signed Takesonosai
Japan, Showa period (1926-1989)
Finely woven in ara-ami to form a rounded basket with a short-woven rattan handle to one side for suspension, the basket made from shichiku (purple) and kuroshiku (black) bamboo strips. Signed to the underside TAKESONOSAI.
HEIGHT 15.5 cm
Condition: Very good condition with minor wear, the upper back interior with a break to a bamboo strip.
Provenance: TAI Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. From a private collection, acquired from the above in 2010. A copy of the invoice from TAI Gallery, dated 4 January 2010 and stating a purchase price of USD 2,550, accompanies this lot. TAI Gallery was founded by Robert T. Coffland, a leading expert in Japanese bamboo arts in the West, who began sourcing works from contemporary masters in Japan. In 2014, the gallery was purchased by Margo Thoma, merged with her own gallery Eight Modern, and rebranded as TAI Modern. Together with Koichiro Okada, a renowned bamboo expert, they support bamboo art in the West by serving as an advisor to Western collectors and institutions, facilitating public demonstrations, and curating bamboo art exhibitions. Works by TAI Modern artists have been placed in some of the country’s most prestigious institutions, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Asian Art Museum, and many more. Eleanor Koffler was the co-author of the book ‘Freeing the Angel from the Stone: A Guide to Piccirilli Sculpture in New York City’ and an avid collector of Western, Native American, and Asian art.
Higashi Takesonosai (1915-2003), Kyoto, was a prolific, widely honored master, best known for his unique structural compositions made with parallel construction. Higashi Takesonosai is considered one of the leading bamboo artists of the later twentieth century. He received an early training from the Kyoto based basket makers Kaneka Chikkasai (dates unknown) and Wada Rinshi (dates unknown) and began to develop his own creative style as early as the 1930s. His first solo exhibition as an independent artist was in 1937. His first participation in the prestigious National Exhibition (Nitten) was in 1952. Since then, he gradually began to move from Chinese-style objects (karamono) to a range of expressive new techniques.
Literature comparison:
Compare a related bamboo and rattan basket by Higashi Takesonosai, 1971, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 2019.424.10.
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