KITAGAWA UTAMARO (1753-1806)

STRETCHING OF CLOTH

Japan, c. 1798-99. 37 x 25 cm. 37.0 x 24.0 cm

Starting price:
28 000 CZK / 1 060 EUR

Price realized:
32 000 CZK / 1 211 EUR

Auction:Asian Works of Art 31/05/2015, 15:00

Woodblock print nishiki-e, ôban format. Framed. Signed: Utamaro hitsu. Publisher: Wakasaya Yoichi (Jakurindô). Only several prints are known from this series "Twelve forms of women's handiwork", such as cooking soya-bens curd, hair-dressing, dyeing and stretching of clothes. These double portraits of beauties belong among the rare Utamaro’s bijin óbkubi-e from his ripe period.

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