JAPANESE SIX-PANEL SCREEN 19th Century
By Kishi Gantai, student of Kishi Ganku, founder of the Kishi School. Depicts a fierce tiger with dramatic striping. Signed and seal marked. Height 65". Total width 140".
Provenance: The Symmes / Shiro Kuma Collection.
Exhibited: Monsanto Gallery, Lander University, Greenwood, South Carolina, September 2011.
The Kishi School is well known for its animal paintings, particularly tigers. Gantai moved to Edo in 1868 and was a recipient of the court title Sakon Shogun.
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