Japanese Woodblock Prints | Including the Sokolov Collection
Japanese Woodblock Prints | Including the Sokolov Collection
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) Plum Estate, Kameido (Kameido umeyashiki), Edo period, 19th century
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May 28, 01:16 PM GMT
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25,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)
Plum Estate, Kameido (Kameido umeyashiki)
Edo period, 19th century
woodblock print, from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei), signed Hiroshige ga, censor's seal aratame, published by Uoya Eikichi, 11th month 1857
Vertical oban:
35 x 23.4 cm.
The thirtieth instalment on the series’ title page in the spring section of Hiroshige’s final oeuvre. The artist Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) had an impression of this print, creating an oil on canvas rendition titled Flowering Plum Orchard (after Hiroshige), 1887, exactly thirty years after the original work was published.
For the oil on canvas version in the collection of the van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, object number s0115V1962, go to:
https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collection/s0115V1962
And, for a tracing of the original print by van Gogh in van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, object number d0772V1962, go to:
https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collection/d0772V1962
The impression of Plum Estate, Kameido that inspired van Gogh to create this work is also in the collection of the van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, object number n0077V1962, go to:
https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/japanese-prints/collection/n0077V1962
The same print is in numerous museum collections, including The British Museum, museum number 1948,0410,0.65, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number 11.35818, and the Tokyo National Museum, object number A-10569_7318.