Lot 908
908
Torii Kiyonaga (1752-1815)
Property from the Collection of Max Palevsky
Torii Kiyonaga (1752-1815)

Beauty Walking under Windblown Wisteria, 1772-81

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Torii Kiyonaga (1752-1815)
Beauty Walking under Windblown Wisteria, 1772-81
Woodcut of a beauty walking on an embankment against the wind, signed Kiyonaga ga--good impression, slightly faded but with extant purple pigment on robe and wisteria, light stains and creases
hashira-e in two sheets: 24 3/8 x 4½in. (61.8 x 11.5cm.)
Provenance
Dr. Walter Amstutz, Switzerland (1902-1997)
Literature
Sotheby's, Tokyo, Japanese and Chinese Prints: The Walter Amstutz Collection Ukiyoe hanga, hanpon to nikuhitsu Chugoku irozuri mokuhanga: Waruta Amushututtsu ukiyoe korekushon, 15 April 1991, lot 102.
Exhibited
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, on loan, 1992.12.10-1993.3.14; and 1999

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Lot Essay

For the impression in the Hiraki Ukiyo-e Foundation, see Chiba City Museum, Torii Kiyonaga: Edo no Vinasu no tanjo Torii Kiyonaga: The Birth of Venus in Edo, exh. cat. (Chiba City: Chiba City Museum, 2007), pl. 59. For the version in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (21.55.7), access .

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