PROPERTY FROM THE PULVERER COLLECTION OF JAPANESE PRINTS
Yashima Gakutei (1786-1868) | Two impressions of Carp Ascending a Waterfall | Edo - Meiji period, 19th century
Auction Closed
June 11, 03:42 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
each a woodblock print, surimono, the first embellished with metallic pigment and embossing, both signed Gakutei, sealed Yashima, the first privately issued for the Kamige Suigyo Poetry Circle, circa late 1820s, the second published by Tsumura Isakichi of Akashi, circa 1890s; the first with collectors’ seals of Hayashi Tadamasa, Henri Vever and Gerhard Pulverer; the second with seal of Gerhard Pulverer only
Each shikishiban surimono:
21.2 x 18.5 cm, 8⅜ by 7¼ in. (the first)
20.6 x 18.4 cm, 8⅛ by 7¼ in. (the second)
Hayashi Tadamasa (1853-1906) (the first)
Henri Vever (1854-1942) (the first)
Sotheby’s, London, Highly Important Japanese Prints, Illustrated Books and Drawings, from the Henri Vever Collection: Part I, 26 March 1974, Lot 345 (the first)
Gerhard Pulverer (b. 1930)
Doitsu Puruvera korekushon ukiyo-e hanga meihinten [Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e from the Pulverer Collection], exhibited at the following venues:
Matsuzakaya Department Store, Osaka, 27th December 1990 - 8th January 1991
Matsuzakaya Department Store, Ginza, 24th - 29th January 1991
Narazaki Muneshige, ed., Hizo ukiyo-e taikan, Puruvera korekushon [Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in Western Collections: The Pulverer Collection] (Tokyo, 1990), nos. 350-51.
Doitsu Puruvera korekushon ukiyo-e hanga meihinten [Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e from the Pulverer Collection] (Tokyo, 1990), p. 82, no. 2-69.
The original of this design was published by the Suigyo Poetry Circle in the late 1820s. The second print is from a large group of surimono made as facsimile reproductions by Tsumura Isakichi of Akashi near Kobe in the 1890s. Four distinctly different groups of such copies have been identified and dubbed Groups A, B, C and D. They were produced both in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; each group has their own characteristics.
For a similar impression of the original executed in the late 1820s in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number JP2374, go to:
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