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several books are stacked on top of each other on a tablemany books on the table with asian writing on themmany books on display on the wall in the room
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141 - SET OF 12 BOOKS ON ZEN PAINTING IN JAPAN:
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Estimate €100 - €150
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SET OF 12 BOOKS ON ZEN PAINTING IN JAPAN: - JAPANESE INK PAINTINGS from American Collections: The Muromachi Period, an Exhibition in Honour of Shûjirô Shimada, ed. Yoshiaki Shimizu and Carolyn Wheelwright, The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1976 (hardback, dust jacket damaged); - ZEN AND THE FINE ARTS, by Shin’ichi Hisamatsu, Kodansha International, Ltd, 1971 (hardback, dust jacket damaged); - ZEN, Masters of Meditation in Pictures and Writings, Helmut Brinker and Hiroshi Kanazawa, Museum Rietberg, Zurich, 1993 (in German; hardback, soiling on the dust jacket and first few pages); - Jan Fontein & Money L. Hickman, ZEN, PAINTING & CALLIGRAPHY, An exhibition of works of art on loan from temples, private collectors, and public and private collections in Japan, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1970 (hardback, dust jacket slightly damaged); - SHO, Brushwork and Painting in Japan from the 7th to the 19th Century, Roger Goepper, Hiroko Yoshikawa, Exhibition by the Museum of Asian Art, Cologne, 1975 (in German); - SONG OF THE BRUSH: Japanese Paintings from the Sansô Collection, ed. John M. Rosenfield, 1979 (catalogue of a travelling exhibition in the USA, 1979–1980), paperback; - THE POET-PAINTERS: BUSON AND HIS FOLLOWERS, an exhibition organised by Calvin L. French, 1974, with an appendix booklet on seals and signatures (travelling exhibition); (hardback, without dust jacket); - KORIN, a small paperback catalogue of an exhibition in Tokyo, 1966, in Japanese, with a list of illustrations in English and a note entitled ‘Ogata Korin and the Art of the Genroku Era’ by Yûzô Yamane (paperback, showing signs of wear); - IKE NO TAIGA SAKU SHINSHÛ, The Work of Ike no Taiga, 2 hardback volumes, texts and photographs, published by Chuo-Koron Bijutsu Shuppan, Tokyo, 1960, in Japanese, with a note and list in English at the end of the text (hardback, bound together in a cardboard slipcase).
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About the sale THE BERNARD ROUSSEAU COLLECTION – DRAWINGS BY HOKUSAI, PAINTINGS FROM JAPAN AND CHINA
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Auction time 10/22/2026 at 3:30 PM
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