Lot Essay
Sold in these Rooms, 7 October 1988, lot 287 (where the catalogue remarks that the color of the print has been revamped)
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The Lovers Umegawa and Chubei Making Their Escape in the Night Rain under an Umbrella, ca. 1798-90
Details
Kitagawa Utamaro (1753?-1806)
The Lovers Umegawa and Chubei Making Their Escape in the Night Rain under an Umbrella, ca. 1798-90
Woodcut of the courtesan Umegawa and Chubei, employee of a money courier, eloping on a rainy night for his native village of Ninokuchi in Yamato province, where Chubei will be found out for stealing a packet of cash he was to deliver and the lovers will meet their end, an illustration of the scene in puppet and kabuki plays based on Meido no hikyaku (Hell's courier, 1711) by Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725), signed Utamaro hitsu and published by Muratoya Jirobei--very good impression, good color though revamped, stained and soiled along right and top edges, some creasing
hashira-e: 25 5/8 x 5¾in. (65.1 x 14.5cm.)
The Lovers Umegawa and Chubei Making Their Escape in the Night Rain under an Umbrella, ca. 1798-90
Woodcut of the courtesan Umegawa and Chubei, employee of a money courier, eloping on a rainy night for his native village of Ninokuchi in Yamato province, where Chubei will be found out for stealing a packet of cash he was to deliver and the lovers will meet their end, an illustration of the scene in puppet and kabuki plays based on Meido no hikyaku (Hell's courier, 1711) by Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725), signed Utamaro hitsu and published by Muratoya Jirobei--very good impression, good color though revamped, stained and soiled along right and top edges, some creasing
hashira-e: 25 5/8 x 5¾in. (65.1 x 14.5cm.)
Provenance
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
Blanche McFetridge (1875?-1966)
Richard W. Weatherhead (1937-1987)
Blanche McFetridge (1875?-1966)
Richard W. Weatherhead (1937-1987)
Literature
Parke Bernet Galleries, Inc., Fine Japanese Prints: Estate of the Late Blanche McFetridge, Property Formerly in the Frank Lloyd Wright Collection, New York, 20 November 1969, lot 138 and cover illustration.
Jacob Pins, The Japanese Pillar Print: Hashira-e (London: R. G. Sawers, 1982), frontispiece.
Julia Meech, Frank Lloyd Wright and the Art of Japan: The Architect's Other Passion (New York: Japan Society and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2001), pl. 172.
Jacob Pins, The Japanese Pillar Print: Hashira-e (London: R. G. Sawers, 1982), frontispiece.
Julia Meech, Frank Lloyd Wright and the Art of Japan: The Architect's Other Passion (New York: Japan Society and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2001), pl. 172.
Exhibited
"Frank Lloyd Wright and Japanese Prints," shown at the following venues:
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ, 1995.3.11-6.11
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1995.9.10-1996.1.7
Japan Society Gallery, New York, "Frank Lloyd Wright and the Art of Japan: The Architect's Other Passion," 2001.3.22-7.15
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ, 1995.3.11-6.11
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1995.9.10-1996.1.7
Japan Society Gallery, New York, "Frank Lloyd Wright and the Art of Japan: The Architect's Other Passion," 2001.3.22-7.15
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