Kantei (active second half 15th century)

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Kantei (active second half 15th century)
Landscapes of the Four Seasons
Each sealed Kantei
Pair of hanging scrolls; ink and slight color on paper
38 1/8 x 18 7/8in. (96.8 x 48cm.) each (2)

Victor Hauge

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PUBLISHED:
Shimada Shujiro, ed., Bukkyo kaiga, yamato-e, suibokuga (Buddhist paintings, yamato-e and ink paintings) vol. 1 of Zaigai Hiho (Japanese Paintings in Western Collections) (Tokyo: Gakken, 1969), p. 121.

These paintings are close in style to a pair of landscapes by Kantei in the Mary Griggs Burke Collection, New York, and to a pair formerly in the John B. Elliott Collection. For the Burke paintings see Miyeko Murase, Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art, exh,. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000), pl. 64.