Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) | Peony and butterfly | Edo period, 19th century
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Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
Peony and butterfly
Edo period, 19th century
woodblock print, embellished with embossing, 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 two
collector's seals of Gerhard Pulverer to verso
Horizontal oban: 26.5 x 38.2 cm., 10⅜ x 15 in.
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Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), Pivoine et papillon, époque Edo, XIXe siècle
Charles Haviland (1839-1921)
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Collection Ch. Haviland: Estampes Japonaises, 27-29 November 1922, Lot 431.
Gerhard Pulverer (b. 1930)
Gian Carlo Calza, Hokusai: Il vecchio pazzo per la pittura (Milan, 1999), p. 327, no. V.45.5.
Palazzo Reale, Milan, Hokusai: Il vecchio pazzo per la pittura, 6 October 1999 – 9 January 2000.
The so-called Large Flowers series that Hokusai designed for the publisher Nishimuraya Yohachi in about 1833-34 comprises ten prints in total. Hokusai masterfully depicts a butterfly fluttering past wind-ruffled peonies.
For another impression of the same print in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number 11.17593.
For a further impression in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, accession number 74.1.211.
A similar impression sold in these rooms, Sotheby's, London, Fine Japanese Prints, 14 December 2021, Lot 23.
The son of the New York-born porcelain merchant David Haviland, Charles Edward Haviland (1839-1921) took over the management of the Limoges porcelain factory founded by his father in 1842. Haviland & Co. soon became one of the leading names in Limoges porcelain and the company still exists today.
