Hiroshima Museum of Art

SAKAMOTO Hanjiro

SAKAMOTO Hanjiro1882-1969

A Western-style painter in Japan. He was participated in the foundation of the Nika-kai. After the World War II, he came back to his home town and stayed gently there to create his works, especially many paintings about horses, so he was called ‘Sakamoto as a painter of horses'.

Villa Gournay in the Suburbs of Paris

1922 oil on canvas 33.3*41.1 cm

 

Tethered Horse

1934 oil on canvas 91.0*116.8 cm