Comparable Sales
Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · John L. Severance Fund
Museum
Snails
c. 1788–89
Market Intelligence
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Evidence ranked
Provenance
Public?–1998
(James J. Freeman, Kyoto, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1998–
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Source provenance text
(James J. Freeman, Kyoto, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Exhibitions
PublicSource exhibition text
Animals in Japanese Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 24-December 10, 2023).
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Sourced Overview Evidence
In this work, Nagasawa Rosetsu carefully described two snails in a manner known as “earth painting” (<em>doro-e</em>), building up colors mixed with crushed white shells in emulation of the thick brushstrokes of oil paint seen in European painting. A silvery metallic pigment indicates the snails’ trails, glistening along an earthen wall. Notably, one trail has no snail, leaving the viewer to guess why.
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Evidence state
0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 2 structured provenance events · 1 structured exhibitions.
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