- 999
Attributed to Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
Estimate
2,500 - 3,000 GBP
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Description
- 32 by 20cm., 12 1/2 by 7 7/8 in.
a drawing of a courtesan standing, naked to the waist, her robes falling loosely around her, inebriated from having drunk too much sake, a sakazuki held in her right hand, in sumi on paper, unsigned
Literature
Compare with very similar portrait drawings of women, illustrated in Muneshige Narazaki, Masterworks of Ukiyo-e: Hokusai sketches and Paintings, pp.94 & 95, nos.77 & 78