Japanese Woodblock Prints
Japanese Woodblock Prints
Lot Closed
December 19, 01:44 PM GMT
Estimate
28,000 - 32,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)
Plum Estate, Kameido (Kameido umeyashiki)
Edo period, 19th century
woodblock print, from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei), signed Hiroshige ga (Pictured by Hiroshige), censor's seal aratame (certified), published by Uoya Eikichi, 11th month 1857
Vertical oban: 37.5 x 25.4 cm., 14¾ x 10 in.
Hiroshige’s Plum Estate, Kameido was famously copied by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) in his Flowering Plum Orchard (after Hiroshige) in 1887.
The print was no doubt striking then as it is now for its close-cropped composition and unusual vantage point. Behind the branches and foliage, visitors to the plum garden near the Tenman Shrine at Kameido admire the fragrant blooms. The placement of the wood sign to the upper left enhances the feeling of depth by receding into the picture plane cut off by the border margins.
For the oil on canvas by van Gogh in the collection of the van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, object number s0115V1962, go to: https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collection/s0115V1962
And, for a tracing of the original print by van Gogh in van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, object number d0772V1962, go to:
https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collection/d0772V1962
The impression of Plum Estate, Kameido that inspired van Gogh to create this work is also in the collection of the van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, object number n0077V1962, go to:
https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/japanese-prints/collection/n0077V1962
