Sale 7960
New York, Park Avenue
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25 October 1994
Price realised
USD 1,725
Estimate
KATSUKAWA SHUNEI: oban tate-e (38.1 x 25.2 cm.); a full-length portrait of the wrestler Yotsugamine Otokichi strolling in the street with his tobacco pouch in one hand and his pipe in the other, signed Shunei ga and published by an unidentified publisher--very good impression, faded and one small worm hole, otherwise good condition
Provenance
Hayashi Tadamasa (sold Paris, Hotel Drouot, 1902, cat. no. 596)
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