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Sesson Shūkei: Quick Facts

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Also Known As Satake Heizo
Born 1504 • Hitachi • Japan
Died c.1589 • Japan
Movement / Style suiboku-ga

Photos

Landscape of the Four Seasons, one of a pair of sixfold screens by Sesson Shūkei, ink and light colours on paper, 16th century; in the Art Institute of Chicago. 155.9 × 338.4 cm.
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Sesshū: Landscape of Four Seasons
Sesshū
Japanese artist
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Kanō Motonobu
Japanese painter
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Tanomura Chikuden
Japanese painter
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Unkoku Tōgan
Japanese painter
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Taikō Josetsu
Japanese painter
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Shingei
Japanese artist
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Soga Chokuan
Japanese painter
Vincent van Gogh: Self-Portrait
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch painter
Mondrian, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1942.
Piet Mondrian
Dutch painter
Oil painting self-portrait by Paul Cezanne showing a balding man with a beard, wearing a dark coat, set against a patterned background.
Paul Cézanne
French artist
Painting by Claude Monet, Self-portrait in Beret, 1886, showing Monet with a full beard, dark beret, and coat against a light, textured background.
Claude Monet
French painter
Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet
French painter
Self-portrait by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French painter
Ma Yuan: Scholar by a Waterfall
Ma Yuan
Chinese painter
Joan Miró
Joan Miró
Spanish artist
Bonnard, Pierre: Place Clichy
Pierre Bonnard
French artist
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Sir Matthew Smith
English painter
Martiros Saryan
Martiros Saryan
Armenian painter
La Farge, John: Flowers on a Japanese Tray on a Mahogany Table
John La Farge
American painter
Morandi, Giorgio: Still Life
Giorgio Morandi
Italian artist

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