Still Life (White Vase, Dish with High Foot and Four Apples)

No image is shown on this page. According to the museum's database, as the title says, it is a still life combining a white vase, a footed dish, and four apples. It is painted in oil on a canvas measuring 45.5 cm in height and 53.0 cm in width, with a signature and date, "劉 1918.12 APR," at the upper center of the picture. The date can be read as April 12, 1918.

In this period Ryusei was learning from Northern Renaissance painters such as Durer and pursuing a realism that describes the form and texture of things down to the details. It was also around this time that he began his series of "Reiko" portraits of his daughter. His still lifes, which repeatedly paint apples and vessels, are regarded as a group of works that show this attempt at realism.

This work was shown at the sixth Sodosha exhibition in 1918. Sodosha was an exhibition held by young painters gathered around Ryusei.

The Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art owns works by Kishida Ryusei, including watercolors and drawings, and introduces this work as one of its principal Western-style paintings. Please check the museum's site for exhibition schedules.