Tiger

The Cleveland Museum of Art · Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund

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Tiger

early to mid-1600s

ArtistSoga Nichokuan (Japanese)

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Medium: six-panel folding screen; ink, slight color, gold, and silver on paper
Dimensions: Painting only: 158.1 x 304.8 cm (62 1/4 x 120 in.); Including mounting: 173.4 x 377.2 cm (68 1/4 x 148 1/2 in.)
Classification: Painting
Style: ASIAN - Folding screen
Origin: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Institution: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit: Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund

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Provenance

Public

?–1985

(Klaus F. Naumann East Asian Art, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1985–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Source provenance text

(Klaus F. Naumann East Asian Art, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Exhibitions

Public

Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen

The Year in Review for 1985

Source exhibition text

The Year in Review for 1985. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 12-April 20, 1986). Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1987-January 10, 1988). Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 236). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 13-November 16, 2015).

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Sourced Overview Evidence

A tiger looks upon a waterfall as it prowls out of a bamboo grove on this screen, and a dragon dives through clouds on the right. Tiger and dragon are traditional symbols of the balancing forces in the world, yin (the feminine aspect) and yang (the masculine aspect). This painting has a signature and seals, identifying it as a work by Soga Nichokuan, a painter thought to be from Sakai (near Osaka), and known primarily for his representations of hawk-eagles (<em>kumataka</em>).

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

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