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)
Suzuki Harunobu (1725-1770) | A girl in a snowy bamboo grove | Edo period, 18th century
Lot Closed
July 21, 01:01 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important European Collection (Lots 1 - 17, All Formerly in the Collection of Henri Vever)
Suzuki Harunobu (1725-1770)
A girl in a snowy bamboo grove
Edo period, 18th century
woodblock print, signed Harunobu ga (Pictured by Harunobu), 1766; with collector’s seal H.V., with original Sotheby's paper sale folder depicting Henri Vever monogram
Vertical chuban: 27.3 x 20.6 cm., 10¾ x 8⅛ in.
Sotheby’s, London, Highly Important Japanese Prints from the Henri Vever Collection: Final Part, 30 October 1997, Lot 14.
Pari Beberu korekushon ukiyo-e meisaku 300 senten (300 Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e Prints from the Vever Collection), exh. cat., (Tokyo, 1975), no. 34.
Jack Hillier, Japanese Prints and Drawings from the Vever Collection, (London, 1976), vol. 1, no. 104.
Jack Hillier, Suzuki Juzo and Adachi Toyohisa, Ukiyo-e: Beberu korekushon (Ukiyo-e Prints from the Vever Collection), (Tokyo, 1976), no. 97.
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