Kitagawa Utamaro (1753?-1806)
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Kitagawa Utamaro (1753?-1806)

Details
Kitagawa Utamaro (1753?-1806)
Chofu no tamagawa [The Chofu Jewel River] from the series Mu-tamegawa [Six Jewel Rivers], signed Utamaro hitsu, published by Matsumuraya Tatsuemon, very good impression, slight fading, framed and glazed
Oban tate-e (37.7 x 24.5cm.)
Provenance
Huguette Berès
Literature
Huguette Berès auction catalogue 2002, no.55

Lot Essay

This series comprises six prints depicting bust portraits of courtesans of the Yoshiwara.
For another impression see Asano Shugo and Timothy Clark, The Passionate Art of Kitagawa Utamaro (London, 1995), no.247

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