Live Auction 9155The Japanese Aesthetic
UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1859)
Lot 93

UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1859)

Closed17 December 2013

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GBP 17,500

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UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1859)
Kamata no umezono [The Plum-tree Garden at Kamata] from the series Meisho Edo hyakkei [One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo], signed Hiroshige ga, published by Uoya Eikichi, censor's seal aratame, date seal Snake 2 (1857)


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A design which so impressed Van Gogh, who was such a great admirer and enthusiastic collector of Japanese prints, that he made an almost exact copy of this design for his famous oil painting which is held by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.