横山大観展

About the exhibition

A Yokoyama Taikan exhibition in Nagoya in 1978 included Autumn Leaves, the monumental pair of six-panel screens now in the Adachi Museum of Art. The museum’s account of its founder, Adachi Zenko, identifies this exhibition as the occasion on which he saw the screens and resolved to acquire them. The painting belonged to the Kitazawa collection before the acquisition described by the museum in 1979. Dated 1931, it sets red maple foliage against ultramarine running water and pale ripples, combining a decorative screen format with an autumn landscape. This reconstruction records the one pair of screens explicitly identified by the museum, counted as one artwork. It does not treat other paintings acquired from the same collection as exhibited objects. The exact venue and opening and closing dates remain uncorroborated; the complete original exhibition catalogue and checklist have not been examined.

Also recorded as: Yokoyama Taikan exhibition, Nagoya, 1978