NISHIKAWA SUKENOBU (1671-1750)*

BEAUTIES ADMIRING A FLOWERING CHERRY EDO PERIOD, KYOHO (1716-36)--GENBUN (1736-41) ERAS

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NISHIKAWA SUKENOBU (1671-1750)*
Beauties admiring a flowering cherry
Edo period, Kyoho (1716-36)--Genbun (1736-41) eras
Signed Bunkado Nishikawa Ukyo Sukenobu kore [o] ga [su], sealed Nishikawa uji and Sukenobu kore [o] zu [su]
Hanging scroll; ink, color and gold on silk
30 x 13.1/8in. (77.5 x 33.3cm.)

Provenance

Shibatsuji Yasukichi, Kyoto

Exhibited

Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, 1938.3.12--27

Mitsukoshi Department Store, Ikebukuro, Tokyo, 1977.6.14--19

Lot Essay

published:
Azabu Museum of Art, ed., Azabu bijutsukan: Shuzohin zuroku (Azabu Museum of Art: Catalogue of the collection) (Tokyo: Azabu Museum of Art, 1986), pl. 7.

Kaneko Fusui, ed., Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e shusei/Ukiyo-e Paintings in Japanese Collections, vol. 2 (Tokyo: Mainichi Shimbunsha, 1977), no. 84.

Kobayashi Tadashi, ed. Azabu bijutsu kogeikan (Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts), vol. 6 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e taikan (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1995), pls. 89--1, 89--2.

Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e meihin ten (Exhibition of masterpieces of ukiyo-e painting), exh. cat. (Tokyo: Mitsukoshi Department Store, Ikebukuro, 1977), no. 143.

Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, ed., Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e senshu (Selection of ukiyo-e painting), exh. cat. (Kyoto: Unsodo, 1938), no. 23.

Wakakuwa Midori, Kakusareta shisen: Ukiyo-e, yoga no josei rataizo (Hidden line of vision: The female nude in ukiyo-e and Western painting), vol. 2 of Iwanami kindai Nihon no bijutsu (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1997), pl. 13.

Yoshida Teruji, Ranjuku jidai, 1 (The period of maturity, 1), vol. 6 of Ukiyo-e taisei (Tokyo: Toho Shoin, 1931), no. 295.