Japanese Woodblock Prints from an Important Private European Collection

Okumura Masanobu (1686-1764) | Golden Pheasant (Kinkei cho) | Edo period, 18th century

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June 13, 09:14 AM GMT

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Okumura Masanobu (1686-1764)

Golden Pheasant (Kinkei cho)

Edo period, 18^th century

woodblock print, tan-e, with hand-applied colour in orange-red pigment, depicting a pheasant on a bough of blossoming plum above a meandering stream and rockwork, signed Nippon gako Okamura Masanobu shohitsu (Genuine Brush of Okumura Masanobu, Painter of Japan) and with artist's gourd-shaped sealed Okumura (signature and seal trimmed on this impression), with circular publisher's seal Tori Shiocho, kongen Okumura ban kono ho no e niseban soro aida hyotan in itashi soro (original published by Okumura in Tori Shio-cho, as my prints are being spuriously published I have applied the gourd mark), circa 1720s; with collectors' seals of Hayashi Tadamasa and Henri Vever to front, seal of Gerhard Pulverer to verso

Vertical hosoban: 31.9 x 12.7 cm., 12½ x 5 in.

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Okumura Masanobu (1686-1764), Faisan doré, époque Edo, XVIIIe siècle

Hayashi Tadamasa (1853-1906)

Henri Vever (1854-1942)

Sotheby’s, London, Highly Important Japanese Prints, Illustrated Books and Drawings, from the Henri Vever Collection: Part I, 26 March 1974, Lot 13.

Gerhard Pulverer (b. 1930)

C. Vignier, T. Inada & R. Koechlin, Estampes Japonaises Primitives Exposées au Musée des Arts Décoratifs en Février 1909 (Paris: 1909), no. 161, pl. 25.

Narazaki Muneshige, ed., Hizo ukiyo-e taikan, Puruvera korekushon [Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in Western Collections: The Pulverer Collection] (Tokyo, 1990), monochrome pl., no. 8.

Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Estampes Japonaises Primitives, February 1909.

A similar impression of the same tan-e print in the collection of the British Museum, museum number 1960,0716,0.1.

Another impression of the same print is in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, object number 16015.

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