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Torii Kiyonaga (1752-1815)
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Torii Kiyonaga (1752-1815)
The actor Nakamura Nakazo in private life warming his feet at a kotatsu, holding a pipe and turning to a courtesan reading a letter, another courtesan standing, a hand raised to her mouth, signed Kiyonaga ga--good impression, centerfold, faded, soiled, stained, repaired worming, crease top right corner
aiban tate-e: 32.8 x 22.8cm.
The actor Nakamura Nakazo in private life warming his feet at a kotatsu, holding a pipe and turning to a courtesan reading a letter, another courtesan standing, a hand raised to her mouth, signed Kiyonaga ga--good impression, centerfold, faded, soiled, stained, repaired worming, crease top right corner
aiban tate-e: 32.8 x 22.8cm.
Provenance
Henri Vever, sold Sotheby's London, Highly Important Japanese Prints from the Henri Vever Collection: Final Part, 30 October 1997, lot 71
Hayashi Tadamasa
Ch. Haviland Collection, until 1923
Hayashi Tadamasa
Ch. Haviland Collection, until 1923
Literature
PUBLISHED:
Jack Hillier, Japanese Prints and Drawings from the Vever Collection, vol. 1 (London and New York: Philip Wilson Publishers and Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1976), no. 342.
Chie Hirano, Kiyonaga: A Study of his Life and Works, (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1939), no. 440, pl. XLIX.
Jack Hillier, Japanese Prints and Drawings from the Vever Collection, vol. 1 (London and New York: Philip Wilson Publishers and Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1976), no. 342.
Chie Hirano, Kiyonaga: A Study of his Life and Works, (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1939), no. 440, pl. XLIX.