- Artist
- Sofu Teshigahara 1900–1979
- Original title
- Haku-Un
- Medium
- Ink on fabric
- Dimensions
- Unconfirmed: 1683 × 908 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1962
- Reference
- T00546
Catalogue entry
Sofu Teshigahara 1900-1979
T00546 Painted Screen
1960
Stamped with Japanese monogram on right-hand section, towards b.r.
India ink on silk, folding screen, two sections each 66 1/4 x 35 3/4 (168 x 90.5); overall dimensions 66 1/4 x 71 1/2 (168 x 181)
Purchased from the artist through the Marlborough New London Gallery (Grant-in-Aid) 1962
Exh:
Japanische Malerei der Gegenwart, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, June-July 1961 (works not numbered); Modern Japanese Painting, Marlborough New London Gallery, London, September-October 1962 (23, repr.); XXXII Biennale, Venice, June-October 1964 (Room XII, 14)
The calligraphic brush drawing on this screen is completely abstract and is not directly based on any Japanese letter or hieroglyph.
Published in:
Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.717, reproduced p.717