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Two Beauties
The Cleveland Museum of Art · The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith
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Two Beauties

late 1700s–early 1800s
Kitao Shigemasa (Japanese, 1739–1819) visual detail
ArtistKitao Shigemasa (Japanese, 1739–1819)
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Medium
hanging scroll, pillar painting: ink and color on silk
Dimensions
Painting only: 104.8 x 15.5 cm (41 1/4 x 6 1/8 in.); Including mounting: 175.3 x 32.7 cm (69 x 12 7/8 in.)
Classification
Painting
Style
ASIAN - Hanging scroll
Origin
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Institution
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith

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Provenance

Public
Provenance event

(David Newman, London, UK, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Kelvin Smith)

? before 1977–1985

The Kelvin Smith Collection, Cleveland, OH, given by Mrs. Kelvin [Eleanor Armstrong] Smith [1899–199...

1985–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Source provenance text

(David Newman, London, UK, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Kelvin Smith) The Kelvin Smith Collection, Cleveland, OH, given by Mrs. Kelvin [Eleanor Armstrong] Smith [1899–1998] to the Cleveland Museum of Art The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Exhibitions

Public
Portraiture: The Image of the Individual

Visions of Japan: Prints and Paintings from Cleveland Collections

A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection

Source exhibition text

Portraiture: The Image of the Individual. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984). A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 14-November 13, 1988). Visions of Japan: Prints and Paintings from Cleveland Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 12, 2004-April 10, 2005).

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Sourced Overview Evidence

Shigemasa favored using colors in broad opaque masses, as seen here in the beauties’ robes. He was a painter, printmaker, and poet, specializing in courtesan and actor prints. The format of this hanging scroll or "pillar painting" allows for the work to be hung on a pillar in a Japanese home.

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Evidence state

0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 3 structured provenance events · 3 structured exhibitions.

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