KITAGAWA UTAMARO (1754-1806) , KITAGAWA UTAMARO (1754-1806)

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KITAGAWA UTAMARO (1754-1806)

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KITAGAWA UTAMARO (1754-1806)
Kaya (Mosquito Net)
From an untitled group of oban three-quarter length portraits published by Moriya Jihei c.1797, lovers on either side of a mosquito-net, signed Utamaro hitsu, very good impression, very good colours, with urushi on the girl's obi, very good condition, slight horizontal centre-fold, slight rubbing in lower right-hand corner
Oban tate-e: 38.2 x 25cm.

Provenance

Gilot Collection, 1904, no.760
Le Véel Collection, part II, 1980, no.37

Literature

Illustrated in colour in the Utamaro-Toulouse Lautrec Exhibition Catalogue, (Tokyo, 1980), no. 107

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Sale room notice

This Lot has slight restoration and is sold as viewed, the estimate is revised to 15,000 - 20,000.

Lot Essay

For four designs from this untitled group see Shugo Asano and Timothy Clark, The Passionate Art of Kitagawa Utamaro, (London, 1995), no.s 267-270
For another impression see Kiyoshi Shibui, Ukiyo-e Zuten, vol. 13, Utamaro, (Tokyo, 1964), no. 510

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