Comparable Sales
Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.
Observed sale facts, comparable evidence, artist index history and modeled research remain separate.
Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.
(Howard Hollis and Co., Cleveland, OH, ?-1954, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1954-present
(Howard Hollis and Co., Cleveland, OH, ?-1954, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1954-present
Japanese Decorative Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art (August 30-October 15, 1961); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (November 9-December 17, 1961). A World of Flowers. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (organizer) (May 2-June 9, 1963). Rimpa. Japan Society Gallery, New York, NY (organizer) (September 13-November 13, 1971). Rin-pa. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (organizer) (October 10-December 3, 1972). Japanese Screens from the Museum and Cleveland Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 23-May 8, 1977). The Legacy of Japanese Art. Chiba City Museum of Art (organizer) (October 1-November 10, 1996). Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 15-September 16, 2001). Rimpa. The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (organizer) (August 21-October 3, 2004). Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 27-August 23, 2009). Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (January 15-February 23, 2014); Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka, Japan (July 8-August 31, 2014). Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 7-July 8, 2019). The Kōrin School: The Irises and Ogata Kōrin’s Followers. Nezu Museum, Tokyo, Japan (organizer) (April 11-May 10, 2026). Special Loan Exhibition of Art treasures from Japan. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (September-October 1936).
The subject of this painting comes from a 10th-century text. It tells of a young nobleman’s journey into the lonely countryside, far from the capital city of Heian-kyō (Kyoto). There he came upon a small stream, the banks of which were covered with blooming irises, on which the artist has chosen to focus our attention. While viewing the beautiful flowers the nobleman composed a poem:<br><br><em>I have a beloved wife, <br>Familiar as the skirt of a well-worn robe, <br>And so this distant journeying <br>Fills my heart with grief. </em>
0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 2 structured provenance events · 12 structured exhibitions.