LOT 340 UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI (1797-1861) Edo period (1615-1868), circa ...
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UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI (1797-1861)Edo period (1615-1868), circa 1834Anoban yoko-e print depicting Shin Yoshiwara from the set of ten printsToto meisho (Famous Views of the Eastern Capital) showing night revellers, three walking and two porters carrying a palanquin with a wealthy patron inside returning home along the Yoshiwara embankment, a pair of piebald puppies snuggled against each other, having fallen asleep at the foot of a street lamp, beneath a moon surrounded by an enormous halo covering a vast expanse of sky, published by Kagaya Kichibei, with censor's sealkiwame, the collector's seal of Henri Vever to the right of the publisher's mark; signedIchiyusai Kuniyoshi ga.23.3cm x 33.5cm (9 1/8in x 13 1/8in).Artist or Maker: Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797-1861)Provenance: Provenance:Henri Vever (1854-1942) Collection.An exceedingly rare design,pare with similar fine impressions in the Harvard Art Museum (object ) and in the Honolulu Museum of Art Museum (no.1890), both prints also with their green borders trimmed.The cast shadows of the figures, palanquin, and clouds; and the use of a pseudo-chiaroscuro technique on the foliage of the trees and the buildings, are reminiscent of Western copperplate engravings that were already being imported to Japan by the late eighteenth century.
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