UTAMARO: oban tate-e (37.1 x 24.4cm.); a woman, possibly the celebrated beauty Okita of the Naniwaya, adjusting her coiffure in a mirror, from the series Sugatami shichinin gesho (Seven women at their toilettes in front of sugatami mirrors), the mirror face applied with silver mica, signed Utamaro ga and published by Tsutaya Juzaburo--fine impression, slightly faded, mica in the mirror preserved but slightly cracked, a few minor worm holes on lower left restored, slightly trimmed
UTAMARO: oban tate-e (37.1 x 24.4cm.); a woman, possibly the celebrated beauty Okita of the Naniwaya, adjusting her coiffure in a mirror, from the series Sugatami shichinin gesho (Seven women at their toilettes in front of sugatami mirrors), the mirror face applied with silver mica, signed Utamaro ga and published by Tsutaya Juzaburo--fine impression, slightly faded, mica in the mirror preserved but slightly cracked, a few minor worm holes on lower left restored, slightly trimmed

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UTAMARO: oban tate-e (37.1 x 24.4cm.); a woman, possibly the celebrated beauty Okita of the Naniwaya, adjusting her coiffure in a mirror, from the series Sugatami shichinin gesho (Seven women at their toilettes in front of sugatami mirrors), the mirror face applied with silver mica, signed Utamaro ga and published by Tsutaya Juzaburo--fine impression, slightly faded, mica in the mirror preserved but slightly cracked, a few minor worm holes on lower left restored, slightly trimmed
Provenance
Hayashi Tadamasa

Lot Essay

Other impressions are held by the New York Public Library (see Asano Shugo, and Timothy Clark, The Passionate Art of Kitagawa Utamaro [London and Tokyo: British Museum Press and Asahi Shimbun, 1995], pl. 62); and the Tokyo National Museum (Tokyo National Museum, ed., vol. 2 of Tokyo kokuritsu hakubutsukan zuhan mokuroku: Ukiyo-e hanga hen/Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum [Tokyo: Tokyo National Museum, 1974], no. 1791).

For impressions in other publications see Kondo Eiko, Shindora korekushon ukiyo-e meihin ten/Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e Prints from the Schindler Collection, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Nikkei Shimbunsha, 1985), no. 54; Kobayashi Tadashi, Utamaro, vol. 5 of Ukiyo-e taikei (Tokyo: Shueisha, 1973), pl. 29; Narazaki Muneshige, et al., Honoruru bijutsukan/Honolulu Academy of Arts, vol. 10 of Ukiyo-e shuka (Tokyo: Shogakukan, 1979), pl. 4; Shibui Kiyoshi, Utamaro, vol. 13 of Ukiyo-e zuten (Tokyo: Kazama Shobo, 1973), p. 46; Vignier and Inada, Utamaro..., Estampes Japonaises: Tires des Collection de...et Exposes au Muse des Arts Dcoratifs en Janvier 1912, reprinted in 2 vols., (Geneva: Minkoff Reprint, 1973), pl. XIX, no. 44; 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. 43; and Yoshida Teruji, Ranjuku jidai II, (The period of maturity, II) vol. 7 of Ukiyo-e taisei (Tokyo: Toho Shoin, 1931), no. 32.

Other impressions were sold in these Rooms, 27 March, 1991, lot 419; and 26 April, 1995, lot 104.