Snail, Suzuki Shônen, 1859 - 1918
sumi and colour on paper on bronze silk mounting, wooden rollers in modern box [2461//41], h 100cm × w 50.2cm More details
With energetic brushwork Suzuki Shonen enlarged the snail until it filled the picture plane. This bravura is also expressed in the enormous signature, and emphasized again in the text of the seal: ‘one sheet out of a thousand, painted in a one day.’ Shonen would have been a young man when he accomplished this tour de force.
