Online Auction 18945From Artist to Woodblock: Japanese Prints
ITO SHINSUI (1898-1972)
Lot 96

ITO SHINSUI (1898-1972)

Fragrance of the Hot-spring (Yu no ka)

Closed18 June 2020

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GBP 5,250

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ITO SHINSUI (1898-1972)
Fragrance of the Hot-spring (Yu no ka)
From the series The First Collection of Modern Beauties (Gendai bijin shu dai isshu)
Woodblock print
Signed Shinsui ga
Published by Watanabe Shozaburo, dated Showa gonen shu (Autumn, 1930)
Limited edition seal on verso numbered 61/250, followed by publisher's rectangular seal, Watanabe
Vertical dai oban: 43.2 x 28.3 cm. (17 x 11 1/8 in.)

Specialist note

For the same print in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession no. 49.743, go to:
https://collections.mfa.org/objects/253611/fragrance-of-the-hotspring-yu-no-ka-from-the-series-firs

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