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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Japan
- Period
- Taishō period 1912 - 1926 → Japan
- Date
- 1920s-1930s
- Media category
- Textile
- Materials used
- silk; resist dyeing
- Dimensions
- 120.0 x 160.0 cm
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by the Asian Art Collection Benefactors 2019
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 145.2019
- Copyright
- Share
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About
In the 1920s and 30s skeletons and skulls were a fashionable design choice to adorn the robes worn under kimonos, as well as for the linings of jackets (haori). Most of these garments were worn by men who would show them off in private settings. Skeleton and skull motifs had been prevalent in Japanese art, particularly Buddhist art, for centuries, but in the Taisho and early Showa periods they were also part of a modern trend in experimental designs on clothing which also included propaganda depictions of warplanes, battleships and submarines.
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Places
Where the work was made
Japan
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Supernatural, Galerie Mingei Japanese arts, Paris, 11 Sep 2018–29 Sep 2018
Japan Supernatural, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 02 Nov 2019–08 Mar 2020
Elemental, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 Jul 2022–2024
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Philippe Boudin and Zoe Niang (Directors), Supernatural, Paris, 18 (colour illus.).
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Provenance
Private Collection, Japan
Private Collection, Sep 2018, France, exhibited in Galerie Mingei, Paris, 11-29 September 2018.
Thomas Murray, pre 13 Aug 2019, United States of America, purchased by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, August 2019.