HARUNOBU: chuban (28 x 20.6cm.); Daruma on a boat, shaving by looking at his reflection in the water while a beauty poles the boat, signed Suzuki Harunobu ga--very good impression, gauffrage, slightly faded, stained along edges, surface soil and light stains, some worming restoed
HARUNOBU: chuban (28 x 20.6cm.); Daruma on a boat, shaving by looking at his reflection in the water while a beauty poles the boat, signed Suzuki Harunobu ga--very good impression, gauffrage, slightly faded, stained along edges, surface soil and light stains, some worming restoed

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HARUNOBU: chuban (28 x 20.6cm.); Daruma on a boat, shaving by looking at his reflection in the water while a beauty poles the boat, signed Suzuki Harunobu ga--very good impression, gauffrage, slightly faded, stained along edges, surface soil and light stains, some worming restoed

Lot Essay

Other impressions are in the Art Institute of Chicago (see Helen C. Gunsaulus, Harunobu, Koryusai, Shigemasa, their Followers and Contemporaries, in The Clarence Buckingham Collection of Japanese Prints [Chicago: The Art Institute, 1965], no. 89; and Jack Hillier, Suzuki Harunobu: An exhibition of his colour-prints and illustrated books on the occasion of the bicentenary of his death in 1770, exh. cat. [Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1970], no. 55); and elsewhere, (see Noguchi Yone[jiro], Harunobu [London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner, and Co., 1940], no. 66 [former Ledoux Collection]; and Yoshida Teruji, Harunobu zenshu [Tokyo: Takamizawa Mokuhansha, 1942], no. 256).

Another impression was sold in these Rooms 27 April, 1993, lot 133.