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...