MORI IPPO: A FINE SIX-PANEL ‘GOROGATAKE WATERFALL AND CRASHING WAVES’ BYOBU (FOLDING SCREEN)

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MORI IPPO: A FINE SIX-PANEL ‘GOROGATAKE WATERFALL AND CRASHING WAVES’ BYOBU (FOLDING SCREEN) By Mori Ippo (1798-1871), signed Ippo and sealed Japan, 19th century Ink, watercolors, and gouache on paper. Mounted on a six black-lacquered wood panels. Finely executed to depict crashing waves against craggy rocks, branches of a verdant pine extend above. The reverse painted with bamboo leaves. Inscriptions: To the left panel, signed Ippo 一鳳 and sealed Mori Keishi in 森印敬之, Shiko uji 子交氏, and stamped with a specially carved seal 木[…]正[…] [natural beauty as it is…]. SIZE 172 x 376 cm Folding screens are intended to be seen from a low viewpoint, seated on a 'tatami' mat floor. Ippo has so organised the composition that the viewer would have the vivid sensation of actually looking out between the trunks of the pine trees to the sea beyond. Mori Ippo (1794-1871) was born in the village of Yoshida in Kyushu to the Iwasaki family and studied under the Osaka artist Mori Tetsuzan (1775-1841). Tetsuzan was a pupil of the great Maruyama Okyo (1733-95), who revived and re-invigorated large-scale landscape paintings on folding screens and sliding-door panels during the late eighteenth century. With their soft, decorative washes in ink, pale blue and gold and sense of deep space, Ippo's screens display the enduring techniques and attitudes to composition of the Maruyama school which Okyo had founded: the pattern of brushwork used in the trees and rocks, and water, too, is particularly close to the manner of the earlier Kyoto master. Auction comparison: Compare a closely related six-panel byobu with waves, by the same artist, 159 x 360 cm, at Christie’s, Japanese and Korean Art, 20 March 2007, New York, lot 109 (sold for USD 16,800 or approx. EUR 23,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing).

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