Unkoku Tokaku (b.1674)
Lot 165

Unkoku Tokaku (b.1674)

Peacocks

Closed18 March 2008

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Unkoku Tokaku (b.1674)
Peacocks
Signed Sesshu nanasei Unkoku Tokaku hitsu, sealed Unkoku and Tokaku
Pair of four-panel screens; ink, color, gold and gold leaf on paper
65 x 110¾in. (165 x 281cm.) (2)

Specialist note

Tokaku is the son of Unkoku Tohan (see Christie's, New York, 21 September, 2006, lot 138), whom he succeeded. He called himself Sesshu VII.

Tokaku's paintings are very rare. For a screen by the artist with a similar subject, see Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, ed., Unkokuha no keifu--Sesshu no kokeisha tachi/Unkoku School--The Successors of Sesshu Style (Yamaguchi: Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, 1986), no. 46.