Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) | Lilies | Edo period, 19th century
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Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
Lilies
Edo period, 19th century
woodblock print, embellished with embossing, from an untitled series known as Large Flowers, signed Saki no Hokusai Iitsu hitsu (Brush of Iitsu, the former Hokusai), censor’s seal kiwame (approved), published by Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudo), circa 1833-34; with collector’s seal Gerhard Pulverer to verso
Horizontal oban: 24.8 x 36.1 cm., 9¾ x 14¼ in.
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Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), Lys, époque Edo, XIXe siècle
Gerhard Pulverer (b. 1930)
Palazzo Reale, Milan, Hokusai: Il vecchio pazzo per la pittura, 6 October 1999 – 9 January 2000.
Gian Carlo Calza, Hokusai: Il vecchio pazzo per la pittura (Milan, 1999), p. 326, no. V.45.3.
The so-called Large Flowers series that Hokusai designed for the publisher Nishimuraya Yohachi in about 1831-32 comprises ten prints in total. Hokusai treats these works in the kacho-ga genre with macroscopic attention. Here, the close-cropped composition abstracts the lilies in various states of bloom against a blue ground.
Another impression of the same print is in the collection of the British Museum, museum number 1924,0327,0.17.
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