Artworks

Reclining Woman

Artwork · Tetsugorō Yorozu · 1912 · painting · The National Museum of Modern Art

Painted in the year Tetsugorō Yorozu (1885–1927) graduated and co-founded the Fusainkai: a woman, nude to the waist, on a grassy hill, the grass, the trees and the background seen from three different viewpoints — Matisse and Van Gogh melded into Yorozu’s own vision. 1 Mason 2005, p. 378, fig. 451. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.