Liza Hyde specializes in Japanese 17th to early 19th century screens, as well as Japanese scrolls and Japanese textiles. Her clients include the serious collector, museum curators, interior designer and the new collector. Her screens can be found in homes, the corporate world, public spaces and well-known museums throughout the world. Her extensive collections are constantly on exhibit, most recently at The Morikami in Delray Beach, Florida and the Brooklyn Museum.

Ms. Hyde works closely with private individuals as well as a large interior designer clientele. Her wonderful sense of design contributes to her ability to always find the most desirable Japanese folding screens (byobu.) She has one of the largest private collections of flower cart screens in the world.

Large folding screens were used to partition the open spaces of Japanese architecture into small sections. These screens were beautifully decorative, depicting a variety of subjects in different styles and added elegance and refinement to the ambience of a room.

Folding screens were typically made of six, four or two panels. Six panel screens extend to a width of nearly twelve feet and at heights from three to six feet. The smaller screens were used for tea ceremony while the taller ones were used as room dividers. Usually they are created as pairs. Although each screen, of a pair, stands alone as an artistic composition, the motifs on one are echoed or continued on the other.

Folding screens were first introduced into Japan from China over a millenium ago, but a remarkable Japanese innovation, the paper hinge, made possible the breath of surface that ideally suited the vigorous artistic temperament of the late 16th century. Many screen paintings are executed on gold leaf, which was originally applied for its reflective value helping to provide illumination to the dim interior of castles by spreading what little light was available from candles or oil-burning lamps. The Japanese preference for screen paintings on gold leaf continued well into the 19th Century, as the screens themselves were avidly commissioned by wealthy merchants of the day.

Liza Hyde is a member of the Brooklyn-Asian Art Council. A friend of the Asia Society. A Friend of the Japan Society, and the Art and Antique Dealers League.

Liza Hyde welcomes your visit to her Internet site and hopes you will take pleasure in viewing a selection of her screens that can be found in the inventory section of her site.

Exhibition Schedule:

The International Asian Art Fair, March 26-31, 2004 at The Seventh Regiment Armory, Park Avenue at 67th Street, New York.

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565 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10022
212.752.3581
Fax: 212.751.6319
http://www.liza-hyde.com/
lizahyde@earthlink.net
Hours: By appointment