Property from the Estate of Bella Kleinman Bella Kleinman (1921-2003), a graduate of Hunter College, lived in New York City and began collecting Japanese prints in the early 1960s, wandering around New York's antique shops. Her collection was formed over a period of twenty years and she retained all of her documentation of purchases. Also an Anglophile, she was introduced to 18th-century English porcelain by London print dealers and became an avid collector. Her porcelain collection was sold at Christie's, London, 6 December, 2004.

Sugimura Jihei (FL. ca. 1681-97)

A young samurai, his retainer and two beauties

Details

Sugimura Jihei (FL. ca. 1681-97)
A young samurai, his retainer and two beauties
A sumizuri-e with hand coloring depicting an excursion under flowering plum branches of a samurai turning to regard two beauties walking behind him, his servant crouching in attendance ahead, unsigned--good impression, toned, soiled, stained, repairs, possibly trimmed left, backed
dai oban yoko-e: 31 x 46.5cm.

Provenance

Henri Vever, sold Sotheby's London, Highly Important Japanese Prints, Illustrated Books and Drawings from the Vever Collection: Part II, 26 March 1975, lot 6

Exhibited

Ukiyo-e meisaku 300 senten "A selection of 300 masterpieces (From the Vever Collection, Paris)", early 1975

Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, "Estampes Japonaises Primitives," [exhibited as Moronobu], 1909.2

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Jack Hillier, Japanese Prints and Drawings from the Vever Collection, vol. 1 (London and New York: Philip Wilson Publishers and Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1976), no. 11.

C. Vignier, T. Inada & R. Koechlin, Estampes Japonaises Primitives Exposées au Musée des Arts Décoratifs en Février 1909 (Paris: 1909), no. 10.

Gaston Migeon, Chefs-d'oeuvre d'art Japonaise (Paris: 1905), p. 17.

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