Masters of the Woodblock: Important Japanese Prints
Masters of the Woodblock: Important Japanese Prints
Property from an Important European Collection (Lots 1 - 17, All Formerly in the Collection of Henri Vever)
Kitagawa Utamaro (1754-1806) | Sasano, Kinshi, Hideno of the Ohishiya in Kyomachi Ni-chome | Edo period, late 18th century
Lot Closed
July 21, 01:08 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 10,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important European Collection (Lots 1 - 17, All Formerly in the Collection of Henri Vever)
Kitagawa Utamaro (1754-1806)
Sasano, Kinshi, Hideno of the Ohishiya in Kyomachi Ni-chome
Edo period, late 18th century
woodblock print, from the series Kashima Dance in the Nikawa Festival of the Green Houses (Seiro Nikawa kashima odori tsuzuki), signed in black Utamaro and in red ga, 1783; with collector’s seal H.V., with original Sotheby's paper sale folder depicting Henri Vever monogram
Vertical oban: 37.2 x 24.9 cm., 14⅝ x 9¾ in.
Henri Vever (1854-1942)
Sotheby’s, London, Highly Important Japanese Prints from the Henri Vever Collection: Final Part, 30 October 1997, Lot 79.
Jack Hillier, Japanese Prints and Drawings from the Vever Collection, (London, 1976), vol. 2, no. 385.
Jack Hillier, Suzuki Juzo and Adachi Toyohisa, Ukiyo-e: Beberu korekushon (Ukiyo-e Prints from the Vever Collection), (Tokyo, 1976), no. 383.
Shugo Asano and Timothy Clark, The Passionate Art of Kitagawa Utamaro, (London, 1995), no. 31.
Pari Beberu korekushon, ukiyo-e meisaku 300 senten (300 Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e from the Vever Collection, exhibited at the following venues:
Keio Department Store, Tokyo, 4th - 15th January 1975
Hanshin Department Store, Osaka, 6th - 18th February 1975
Sogo Department Store, Hiroshima, 21st - 26th April 1975
British Museum, London, The Passionate Art of Kitagawa Utamaro, 31 August - 22 October 1995.
Chiba City Art Museum, The Passionate Art of Kitagawa Utamaro, 3 November - 10 December 1995.