Masters of the Woodblock: Important Japanese Prints

Masters of the Woodblock: Important Japanese Prints

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Property from an Important European Collection (Lots 1 - 17, All Formerly in the Collection of Henri Vever)

Kitagawa Utamaro (1754-1806) | The Asahiya Widow | Edo period, late 18th century

Lot Closed

July 21, 01:09 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 50,000 GBP

Lot Details

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Property from an Important European Collection (Lots 1 - 17, All Formerly in the Collection of Henri Vever)

Kitagawa Utamaro (1754-1806)

The Asahiya Widow

Edo period, late 18th century


woodblock print, from the series Six Selected Elegant Poems (Furyu Rokkasen), signed Utamaro hitsu (Brush of Utamaro), published by Omiya Gonkuro, circa 1796; with collector’s seal H.V., with original Sotheby's paper sale folder depicting Henri Vever monogram


Vertical oban: 39 x 25.1 cm., 15⅜ x 9⅞ in.

Henri Vever (1854-1942)

Sotheby’s, London, Highly Important Japanese Prints from the Henri Vever Collection: Final Part, 30 October 1997, Lot 95.

Jack Hillier, Japanese Prints and Drawings from the Vever Collection, (London, 1976), vol. 2, no. 462.