HARUNOBU: half oban (26 x 19.5cm.); a courtesan, standing before a sliding door painted with a pair of mandarin ducks, biting the edge of her sash as she thinks of her absent lover, signed Harunobu ga--good impression, faded, slightly soiled and foxed
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HARUNOBU: half oban (26 x 19.5cm.); a courtesan, standing before a sliding door painted with a pair of mandarin ducks, biting the edge of her sash as she thinks of her absent lover, signed Harunobu ga--good impression, faded, slightly soiled and foxed
Lot Essay
This is a republication in half-oban format of the chuban image with poet's name and verse here removed, from an untitled series of illustrations of the Thirty-six Poetic Geniuses.