UTAMARO: oban tate-e (37.3 x 24.1cm.); a bust portrait of the geisha Kamekichi of Sodegaura, under a poem and view of Sodegaura in cartouches on upper right, grey background, signed Utamaro hitsu and published by Tsutaya Juzaburo--good impression, color faded, slightly soiled on lower left, faint stains, trimmed into poem cartouche, some minute worm holes near right edge

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UTAMARO: oban tate-e (37.3 x 24.1cm.); a bust portrait of the geisha Kamekichi of Sodegaura, under a poem and view of Sodegaura in cartouches on upper right, grey background, signed Utamaro hitsu and published by Tsutaya Juzaburo--good impression, color faded, slightly soiled on lower left, faint stains, trimmed into poem cartouche, some minute worm holes near right edge

Lot Essay

Henri Vever, sold Sotheby's, London, Highly Important Japanese Prints, Illustrated Books and Drawings from the Henri Vever Collection: Part I, March 24, 1974, lot 179.

For another impression see Asano Shugo and Timothy Clark, The Passionate Art of Kitagawa Utamaro (Tokyo/London: Asahi Shimbun/British Museum Press, 1995), pl. 186.; also Shibui Kiyoshi, Utamaro, Ukiyoe zuten, vol. 13 (Tokyo: Kazama Shobo, 1964), p. 47.