Live Auction 2596Japanese Art & Design Including Arts of The Samurai
Kitagawa Utamaro (1753?-1806)
Lot 285 THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 

Kitagawa Utamaro (1753?-1806)

Closed9 November 2011

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GBP 6,250

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Kitagawa Utamaro (1753?-1806)
Chofu no tamagawa [The Chofu Jewel River] from the series Mu-tamegawa [Six Jewel Rivers], signed Utamaro hitsu, published by Matsumuraya Tatsuemon, very good impression, slight fading, framed and glazed
Oban tate-e (37.7 x 24.5cm.)

Huguette Berès

Specialist note

This series comprises six prints depicting bust portraits of courtesans of the Yoshiwara.
For another impression see Asano Shugo and Timothy Clark, The Passionate Art of Kitagawa Utamaro (London, 1995), no.247