Isoda Koryusai (act. 1768-88)

Okanaya nai Suminoe, from the series Hinagata wakana no hatsumoyo (Models for fashion: new designs as fresh as young leaves)

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Isoda Koryusai (act. 1768-88)
Okanaya nai Suminoe, from the series Hinagata wakana no hatsumoyo (Models for fashion: new designs as fresh as young leaves)
The courtesan Suminoe of the Okanaya seated before a mirror rouging her lips, while an attendant dresses her hair and a kamuro kneels beside her, signed Koryusai ga and published by Nishimuraya Yohachi--very good impression, generally good color, some pigments faded, slightly soiled and stained, worm hole restored
oban tate-e: 38.4 x 25.5cm.

Provenance

Henri Vever, sold Sotheby's, London, Highly Important Japanese Prints from the Henri Vever Collection: Final Part,
30 October 1997, lot 35

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Jack Hillier, Japanese Prints & Drawings from the Vever Collection, vol. I (London: Sotheby Parke Bernet and Rizzoli International, 1976), pl. 188.

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