Igen (Li Ao) and Rakuzan (Yaoshan) in Discourse
Attributed to
Kenkô Shôkei
(Japanese, active 1478 - 1506)
DateMuromachi period (1392-1568)
MediumHanging scroll; ink on paper (orientation: left in pair)
DimensionsImage: 33 5/8 × 16 5/16 inches (85.41 × 41.43 cm)
Mount: 66 1/2 × 21 1/4 inches (168.91 × 53.98 cm)
Mount: 66 1/2 × 21 1/4 inches (168.91 × 53.98 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Mrs. George H. Bunting Jr.
Object number81-27/30 B
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionYüeh-shan shown seated on a broadly washed rock gesticulating wildly with his right arm and glaring. An attendant stands at his side. A rapidly and loosely brushed pine branch with soft, broadly sketched clusters of needles fills the upper one-third. Shallow stage of space. Li Ao stands in confucian scholar's garb with his hands folded in his sleeves. An attendant stands behind him. Palms rise up the left edge. Palm leaf clusters are distinctively spikey. Drapery is depicted with dense complicated folds from a rapid brush, leading to a fluid, scribbly effect.ProvenanceWith Yabumoto Bijutsuten, Tokyo, by March 24, 1975;
Purchased from Yabumoto Bijutsuten by Yamanaka & Co., Ltd., Kyoto, March 24, 1975-June 18, 1976 [1];
Purchased from Yamanaka & Co., Ltd. by Karen Dean Bunting (1912-1981), Shawnee Mission, KS, June 18, 1976 -1981 [2];
Her bequest to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1981.
NOTES:
[1] According to the Yamanaka & Co., Ltd. invoice, Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.
[2] Ibid.
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