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Subject:Artist identification
Posted By: Michele Wed, Feb 04, 2015 IP: 71.162.138.67
I am looking for any help identifying a artist







Subject:Re: Artist identification
Posted By: Guy Thu, Feb 05, 2015
Your painting is immediately recognizable as a work of art of the Japanese master painter Kishi Ganku (1756-1839), famous for his depictions of tigers and animals. I think also that this is an original. Unfortunately, originally mounted as a hanging scroll, your painting is now framed in such manner that a whole part of the signature is missing. In this way, only a fragment of the original work survived. If this was done intentionally, the chap that did the framing should be severly blamed. Fortunately, Ganku's double seal 'Ganku/Fuzen' (岸駒 賁然) is still intact.

A very similar painting is on view at the website of the MFA Boston:
http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/tiger-25106

I should date it early 19th century.
For Kishi Ganku's bio, cfr link to Wikipedia.

Guy.

URL Title :Kishi Ganku


Subject:Re: Artist identification
Posted By: rat Thu, Feb 05, 2015
Nice Japanese painting, unfortunately with some of the inscription and space cut off at the top, perhaps originally paired with another painting of a dragon. Please take a clearer close up image of the seal and repost the overall view with a subject like "Please help identify Japanese painter" and you may get some attention the Japan experts here. I might be able to recognize the characters of the seal but don't have much knowledge of Japanese artists.

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Subject:Re: Artist identification
Posted By: Michele Thu, Feb 05, 2015
thank you for the information about Japanese

Subject:Re: Artist identification
Posted By: Michele Thu, Feb 05, 2015
it was not part tiger dragon drawing it is a single painting

Subject:Re: Artist identification
Posted By: j lewis Fri, Feb 06, 2015
PERHAPS, the signature continues under the matt.

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