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Portrait of Basho
The Cleveland Museum of Art · John L. Severance Fund
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Portrait of Basho

1700s
Ichijun (Japanese, active 1700s) visual detail
ArtistIchijun (Japanese, active 1700s)
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Medium
hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Painting only: 28.2 x 47 cm (11 1/8 x 18 1/2 in.); Including mounting: 112.5 x 64.2 cm (44 5/16 x 25 1/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Style
ASIAN - Hanging scroll
Origin
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Institution
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
John L. Severance Fund

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Provenance

Public
?–1988

(David Newman, London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1988–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Source provenance text

(David Newman, London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Exhibitions

Public
The Year in Review for 1988

The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art

Source exhibition text

The Year in Review for 1988. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 1-May 14, 1989). The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 15-August 21, 2011).

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Sourced Overview Evidence

The 15th-century poet Matsuo Basho is still considered Japan’s greatest master of the haiku poem, a short, 17-syllable verse form that relates some aspect of nature to the human experience. Although he was one of the most celebrated men of his day, he pursued a simple life of self-imposed poverty and solitude. In this portrait, Ichijun alluded to Matsuo’s haiku about the transient life: <em>warau beshi naku beshi, waga asagao no, shibomu toki</em> (to smile or to cry when my face in the morning [glory] is wilted).

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Evidence state

0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 2 structured provenance events · 2 structured exhibitions.

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