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Lot Essay
Kyosen was the pen name of Okubo Jinshiro Tadanobu, a shogunal retainer who sponsored an egoyomi no kai [calendar picture group] to which Harunobu belonged.
Details
Suzuki Harunobu (1725?-1770)
The second state of a design that was originally a calendar print for Meiwa 2 (1765), bears the name Kyosen and sealed Kyosen no in, a design of two ladies in a boat picking lotus flowers, good impression and colour, slight staining; and a design of a woman sweeping icicles from the eves of a house, signed Suzuki Harunobu hitsu, good impression, stained, rubbed and faded, soiled
Various sizes (2)
The second state of a design that was originally a calendar print for Meiwa 2 (1765), bears the name Kyosen and sealed Kyosen no in, a design of two ladies in a boat picking lotus flowers, good impression and colour, slight staining; and a design of a woman sweeping icicles from the eves of a house, signed Suzuki Harunobu hitsu, good impression, stained, rubbed and faded, soiled
Various sizes (2)
Provenance
The first, Hans Popper
Literature
The first is illustrated in Jack Hillier, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Suzuki Harunobu, (Boston, 1976), no.12
Special notice
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