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) | Yamauba kissing Kintaro | Edo period, late 18th - early 19th century

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Property from an Important European Collection (Lots 1 - 17, All Formerly in the Collection of Henri Vever)

Kitagawa Utamaro (1754-1806)

Yamauba kissing Kintaro

Edo period, late 18^th - early 19^th century

woodblock print, signed Utamaro hitsu (Brush of Utamaro), published by Yamaguchiya Chusuke, circa 1795-1805; with collectors' seals HayashiTadamasa and H.V., with original Sotheby's paper sale folder depicting Henri Vever monogram

Vertical oban: 36.2 x 24.8 cm., 14¼ x 9¾ in.

Hayashi Tadamasa (1853-1906)

Henri Vever (1854-1942)

Sotheby’s, London, Highly Important Japanese Prints from the Henri Vever Collection: Final Part, 30 October 1997, Lot 100.

Jack Hillier, Japanese Prints and Drawings from the Vever Collection, (London, 1976), vol. 2, no. 483.

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