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KITAGAWA UTAMARO (1753?-1806)
Lot 15

KITAGAWA UTAMARO (1753?-1806)

The Merchant's Wife (Okami-san)

Closed12 July 2018

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GBP 7,500

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KITAGAWA UTAMARO (1753?-1806)
The Merchant's Wife (Okami-san)
A woman holding a pipe (kiseruzutsu)
Woodblock print, from the series Variegations of Blooms According to their Speech (Saki-wake kotoba no hana), signed Utamaro hitsu, published by Yamamura, 1802
Vertical oban (37 x 24.8 cm.)

Specialist note

For the same print including an inscription in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number 18.312, go to:
https://www.mfa.org/collections/search

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