Japanese Woodblock Prints from an Important Private European Collection

Japanese Woodblock Prints from an Important Private European Collection

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Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) | Hydrangeas and Swallow | Edo period, 19th century

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Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)

Hydrangeas and Swallow

Edo period, 19th century

 

woodblock print, 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 of Gerhard Pulverer to verso


Horizontal oban: 25.7 x 38.2 cm., 10⅛ x 15 in.


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Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), Hortensias et hirondelle, 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. 327, no. V.45.6.

The so-called Large Flowers series that Hokusai designed for the publisher Nishimuraya Yohachi in about 1833-34 comprises ten prints in total. Against a yellow ground, a swallow is captured in steep descent as it flies past rainy-season hydrangea blooms.


A similar impressions of the same print is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number 11.17592.

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