Masters of the Woodblock: Important Japanese Prints

Masters of the Woodblock: Important Japanese Prints

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 14. Utagawa Toyokuni (1769-1825) | The lovers Shirai Gompachi and Tamaya Komurasaki | Edo period, late 18th century - early 19th century.

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

Utagawa Toyokuni (1769-1825) | The lovers Shirai Gompachi and Tamaya Komurasaki | Edo period, late 18th century - early 19th century

Lot Closed

July 21, 01:14 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 GBP

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

Utagawa Toyokuni (1769-1825)

The lovers Shirai Gompachi and Tamaya Komurasaki

Edo period, late 18th century - early 19th century


woodblock print, signed Toyokuni ga (Pictured by Toyokuni), published by Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendo), circa 1800s; with collector’s seals of an unidentified Japanese collector and H.V., with original Sotheby's paper sale folder depicting Henri Vever monogram


Vertical oban: 36.5 x 25 cm., 14⅜ 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 136.

Pari Beberu korekushon ukiyoe meisaku 300 senten (300 Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e Prints from the Vever Collection), exh. cat., (Tokyo, 1975), no. 270.


Jack Hillier, Japanese Prints and Drawings from the Vever Collection, (London, 1976), vol. 2, no. 644. 


Jack Hillier, Suzuki Juzo and Adachi Toyohisa, Ukiyo-e: Beberu korekushon (Ukiyo-e Prints from the Vever Collection), (Tokyo, 1976), no. 662.

Pari Beberu korekushon, ukiyo-e meisaku 300 senten (300 Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e from the Vever Collection), exhibited at the following venues: 


Keio Department Store, Tokyo, 4th - 15th January 1975

Hanshin Department Store, Osaka, 6th - 18th February 1975

Sogo Department Store, Hiroshima, 21st - 26th April 1975