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Permanent Collection - Past Displays
The collection of Pola Museum of Art, Pola Art Foundation is one that was put together over a period of more than forty years by the late Suzuki Tsuneshi (1930-2000), the former owner of the Pola Orbis Holdings Inc.. These works include example of modern European painting, modern Japanese Western-style painting, contemporary Japanese-style painting, prints, sculpture, Oriental ceramics, modern and contemporary Japanese ceramics, glasswork, and cosmetic utensils from a variety of eras and regions of the world.
Paintings
Masterpieces of the Pola Museum of Art Mar.26,2008 - Sep.7,2008 Open Daily
Western Painting
Forming the core of the collection are modern European paintings, chiefly works by Impressionists such as Monet and Renoir, Post-Impressionists such as Cezanne and van Gogh, the painters of the Ecole de Paris such as Pascin and Foujita, and twentieth-century painters such as Picasso and Magritte.In this gallery, approximately thirty paintings are presented in several parts, generally following the course of Modern painting.

Impressionism, Ecole de Paris and Twentieth-century European Paintings
    Water Lily Pond       La Coiffure    
 

Claude Monet
Water Lily Pond
1899
Oil on canvas

  

Pierre Auguste Renoir
La Coiffure
1888
Oil on canvas

  
    Flower Vase with Thistles       Exotic Landscape    
 

Vincent van Gogh
Flower Vase with Thistles
1890
Oil on canvas

  

Henri Rousseau
Exotic Landscape
1910
Oil on canvas

  
List of Works
Japanese Western-style Painting
The Pola Museum of Art has paintings that provide an overview of the major painters and important movements in the history of Japanese Western-style painting, from early Meiji era to the Taisho and Showa eras. These Works represent not only the history of Japanese Western-style painting but also the course of Japanfs modernization.In this gallery, we follow how Japanese painters created a Japanese style of oil painting by assimilating Western painting in original ways.

Meiji Era
    Cormorant Fishermen       Chrysanthemums    
 

Takahashi Yuichi
Cormorant Fishermen
1892
Oil on canvas

  

Kuroda Seiki
Chrysanthemums
1912
Oil on canvas

  
    Profile of a Woman       Kimono with Iris Pattern    
 

Fujishima Takeji
Profile of a Woman
1926-1927
Oil on panel

  

Okada Saburosuke
Kimono with Iris Pattern
1927
Oil on paper mounted on canvas

  

Taisho and Showa Eras
    Lake and Woman       Portrait of Reiko Sitting    
 

Murayama Kaita
Lake and Woman
1917
Oil on canvas

  

Kishida Ryusei
Portrait of Reiko Sitting
1919
Oil on canvas

  
List of Works
Japanese-style Painting
Modern and contemporary Japanese-style paintings represent one of the highlights of the Pola Museum of Art. The collection has been built around works of artists who profoundly influenced Japanese-style painting of the Showa era, such as Sugiyama Yasushi, Takayama Tatsuo, Hirayama Ikuo, and others.

Masters of Contemporary Japanese-style Painting
List of Works
Cosmetic Utensils
Ukiyo-e Beauties and Cosmetic Accessories -From the Edo to Meiji Periods (17th to Early 20th Centuries) Mar.26,2008 - Sep.7,2008 Open Daily
    One Hundred Beauties and Famous Places of Edo: Goten'yama       Various Swept-back Hairstyles    
 

Utagawa Toyokuni
One Hundred Beauties and Famous Places of Edo: Goten'yama
1858
*On exhibit from Jun.11,2008

  

Yoshu Chikanobu
Various Swept-back Hairstyles
1887
*On exhibit from Jun.11,2008

  
    Cosmetic Utensils       Cosmetic Utensils    
 

Tooth-blackening Accessories for Commoners
Second half of the Edo period

  

Large and Small Mirror Boxes and a Mirror Stand in Makie Lacquer on a Nashiji Lacquer Ground, and a Handled Mirror with a Nandina Design
Second half of the Edo period

  
List of Works
Photo(architecture) : Mamoru Ishiguro
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