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

Torii Kiyonaga (1752-1815)

Beauty Walking under Windblown Wisteria, 1772-81

Closed23 March 2011

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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.)

Dr. Walter Amstutz, Switzerland (1902-1997)

Specialist note

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 .