Old Monkey with Cherry in Autumn - Kansetsu Hashimoto - Japanese Art Masterpiece Painting - Canvas Prints Abstract Painting Diptychs and Panels she leans forward slightly towards

she leans forward slightly towards the viewer

the characteristic fragmentation of form is carried to almost unre-cognizable lengths

Chikanobu (1838-1912)

but discovered he could not embrace it and died of frustration

The 1917 “Nu couche (sur le cote gauche)" depicts a reclining female nude from behind

Old Monkey with Cherry in Autumn - Kansetsu Hashimoto - Japanese Art Masterpiece Painting - Canvas Prints Abstract Painting Diptychs and Panels she leans forward slightly towardsOld Monkey with Cherry in Autumn, a color on silk painting completed by the Japanese artist Hashimoto Kansetsu in 1938. This is a painting done for the educated elite. Although industrialized Japan had been at war across southeast Asia for decades at this point, the aristocracy still held Chinese language and literature in high regard. The monkey and persimmon is a famous motif of auspicious nature in Chinese painting. Hashimoto (18831945) was active