Provenance

Acquired from artist by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, ca. 1916; inherited by his family; deposited in the Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1953–6 April 1984; deposited in NMWA, 19 September 1959–27 September 1961, Dep. 59-2 (D-31); donated by the heirs of Kojiro Matsukata to NMWA, 17 October 2017.

Exhibition History

1953

Ex-Matsukata collection, Bridgestone Gallery, Tokyo, 24 March 1953 - 10 May 1953, cat. no. 1

1955

2nd Ex-Matsukata collection, Bridgestone Gallery, Tokyo, 8 November 1955 - 4 December 1955, cat. no. 1

1956

The old Matsukata collection: in commemoration of the opening of the Kobe Shimbun Newspaper building, Gallery of the Kobe Shimbun Newspaper Building, Kobe, 26 May 1956 - 10 June 1956, unnumbered

1956

Matsukata collection, Kyoto Shijō Daimaru, 6 November 1956 - 18 November 1956, unnumbered

1957

Ex-Matsukata collection, Nihombashi Shirokiya, Tokyo, 9 April 1957 - 28 April 1957, cat. no. [1], repr.

1957

Ex-Matsukata collection, Ishibashi Art Gallery, Kurume, 1 September 1957 - 30 September 1957, cat. no. 1

1960

Masterpieces of the Ex-Matsukata Collection, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 14 May 1960 - 10 July 1960, cat. no. 4, repr.

1989

The Old Matsukata Collection, Kobe City Museum, 14 September 1989 - 26 November 1989, cat. no. 90, col. repr.

2010

Frank Brangwyn, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 23 February 2010 - 30 May 2010, cat. no. 40, col. repr.

2014

Modern Western paintings and the Old Matsukata Collection, Kagoshima City Museum of Art, 18 July 2014 - 31 August 2014, cat. no. 4

2016

The Old Matsukata Collection: Reenvisioning the Dream: Pre-Event of the 150th Anniversary of the Opening of Kobe Port, Kobe City Museum, 17 September 2016 - 27 November 2016, cat. no. 4, col. repr.

2019

The Matsukata Collection: A One-Hundred-Year Odyssey: Upon the 60th Anniversary of the NMWA, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11 June 2019 - 23 September 2019, cat. no. 2, col. repr.

2022

Renoir—Monet—Gauguin: Images of a Floating World: the Collections of Kōjirō Matsukata and Karl Ernst Osthaus, Museum Folkwang, 6 February 2022 - 15 May 2022

2024

Does the Future Sleep Here?: Revisiting the Museum's Response to Contemporary Art after 65 Years, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 12 March 2024 - 12 May 2024

Bibliography

1990

The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 104.

2016

Minato, Noriko. "Korekuta Matsukata Kojiro to sono syuhin". The Old Matsukata Collection: Reenvisioning the Dream (exh. cat.). Kobe City Museum, 17 September-27 November 2016. Executive Committee of the Old Matsukata Collection, 2016, pp. 22-23, fig. 6.

2018

The Matsukata Collection: Complete Catalogue of the European Art. Kawaguchi, Masako; Jingaoka, Megumi, eds. vol. 1: Paintings, Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2018, cat. no. 101, col. repr.

2019

The Matsukata Collection: A One-Hundred-Year Odyssey (exh. cat.). Jingaoka, Megumi, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of the Western Art, Tokyo; Yomiuri Shimbun; NHK; NHK Promotions, 2019, pp. 62-63, 350, cat. no. 2, col. repr.

2019

Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 52 (Apr. 2017-Mar. 2018), 2019, Jingaoka, Megumi. New Acquisitions. pp. 16-17, List of New Acquisitions. p. 21, col. repr.

2022

Renoir—Monet—Gauguin: Images of a Floating World: the Collections of Kōjirō Matsukata and Karl Ernst Osthaus (exh.cat.). Engel, Nadine; Herlemann, Rebecca, eds. Berlin, Hatje Cantz, [2022], pp. 197, 363, col. repr.

2024

Does the Future Sleep Here?: Revisiting the Museum's Response to Contemporary Art after 65 Years (exh. cat.). Shinfuji, Atsushi; Mochizuki, Kaoru, eds. [Tokyo], Culture Convenience Club; Bijutsu Shuppan-sha, 2024, pp. 142, 305, col. repr.

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