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Boîte à papier à lettres (ryôshibako)ornée des attributs des sept dieux du Bonheur - couvercle. Collection Catherine et Thomas Edson, San Antonio Museum of Art- ©San Antonio Museum of Art/Photo Peggy Tenison

LACQUER DREAMS, THE JAPAN OF SHIBATA ZESHIN

With the collaboration of the Catherine and Thomas Edson Collection, San Antonio Museum of Art

6 April -15 July 2012
70 pieces of lacquerware, screens, paintings, decorative and usual objects will be presented for the first time in Paris (France), illustrating the masterful art of Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891). This artist's career bridged two great periods in the history of Japan: the Japan of the Samurais (Edo Period) and the Japan of Modernity (Meiji Period). His paintings and lacquerwares bear witness to the...