Shimomura Kanzan

黑料不打烊

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Japanese | 1873 - 1930

Shimomura Kanzan was a Japanese painter who was born in 1873. Numerous key galleries and museums such as The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo have featured Shimomura Kanzan's work in the past.Shimomura Kanzan's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 150 USD to 22,897 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2009 the record price for this artist at auction is 22,897 USD for Old wise man and Holy deer, sold at Mainichi Auction, Tokyo in 2016. Shimomura Kanzan has been featured in articles for and . The most recent article is written for e-flux in October 2023. The artist died in 1930.

Artist's alternative names: Kanzan Shimomura

Featured for Sale

Jittoku (a pair of scrolls

By Shimomura Kanzan

Mainichi Auction, Tokyo

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Saisoro

By Shimomura Kanzan

+35%

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Hermit

By Shimomura Kanzan

+70%

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Jurojin

By Shimomura Kanzan

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Jittoku (a pair of scrolls

By Shimomura Kanzan

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Bamboo and stone

By Shimomura Kanzan

-8%

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Hotei

By Shimomura Kanzan

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Chrysanthemum and old man

By Shimomura Kanzan

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Past Exhibitions

Remaking Tradition: Modern Art of Japan from the Tokyo National Museum

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland | Ohio | USA

16 Feb, 2014 - 11 May, 2014

MOMAT Collection

The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Chiyoda-ku | Tokyo | Japan

23 May, 2023 - 10 Sep, 2023

2022-3 MOMAT Collection

The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Chiyoda-ku | Tokyo | Japan

17 Mar, 2023 - 14 May, 2023

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Articles

Shin Japanese Painting: Revolutionary Nihonga

e-flux 14 Oct, 2023

While visiting Japan as a foreign advisor hired by the Meiji government, the art historian Ernest Fenollosa (1853鈥�1908) referred to all of the paintings he came across as 鈥淛apanese paintings.鈥�

Shimomura Kanzan kept nihonga clean and cool

The Japan Times 08 Jan, 2014

Art can sometimes play a balancing or compensatory role in society, giving voice to neglected or superseded aspects of a culture.