Melon and Peaches
by Ito Shinsui
- Date:
- 1939
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
- Format:
- Oban
- Dimensions:
- 33.2 × 45.7 cm
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
- Published by Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
by Ito Shinsui
Shinsui's extensive oeuvre spans bijin-ga, landscapes, and genre subjects. Auction averages over 12 months reflect healthy collector demand across all subject types.
A summer arrangement of melon and peaches—two fruits that embodied the peak of warm-season pleasure in Japanese domestic life—is depicted in this 1939 still-life work, one of Shinsui's relatively rare forays into pure still-life subjects rather than figure painting or landscape. The traditional summer fruits, their surfaces rendered with the careful attention to texture and light that Shinsui brought to all his subjects, create a composition that is simultaneously modest in scale and intensive in observation.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Melon and Peaches was created by Ito Shinsui (伊東深水) in 1939.
Melon and Peaches was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1939).
Melon and Peaches depicts food & drink.
Melon and Peaches measures 33.2 × 45.7 cm (Oban format).
