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Kitagawa Utamaro

1753 – Tokyo – 1806

Act IX (Kudanme) from The Chûshingura Drama (Kômei bihin mitate Chûshingura jûnimai tsuzuki). Before 1795

Colour woodcut on Japan paper. Ôban: 36,8 × 25 cm (14 ½ × 9 ⅞ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Kitagawa Utamaro. Act IX (Kudanme) from The Chûshingura Drama (Kômei bihin mitate Chûshingura jûnimai tsuzuki). Before 1795.

Estimate:

EUR 6,000

 

- 8,000

USD 7,380

 

- 9,840

Sold for:

7,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Spring Auctions 2018

ORANGERIE, Thursday, 31.05.2018

Information

Colour woodcut on Japan paper. Ôban: 36,8 × 25 cm (14 ½ × 9 ⅞ in.). Signed and inscribed lower right: Utamaro hitsu . Publisher: Ômiya Gonkurô, stamp not available / Inscription: left: Kurataya Yû; right: Tokusaburô / Sheet from an album of 12 woodcuts (Ôban). Three of the sheet margins are trimmed.

Related literature and comparable objects: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, inv. no. 11.14418 / Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, inv. no. P.356-1945 / Teruji Yoshida: Utamaro zenshû. 1941, cat. no. 212 / Kiyoshi Shibui: Ukiyo-e zuten. Utamaro. Tokyo, 1964, cat. no. 160.3.1 / Money Hickman: Ukiyo-e shūka, Tokyo, 1978, vol. 3, p. 246, cat. no. 300.9 / Shūgō Asano and Timothy Clark: The Passionate Art of Kitagawa Utamaro. Exh. cat., London, 1995, p. 161, ill. 210-9 / David Bell: Chushingura and the Floating World. The Representation of Kanadehon Chushingura in Ukiyo-e prints. Richmond, 2001, p. 134, ill. 39..

Collection Ernst Henke (1881–1974), Essen (acquired in 1942 at Krenz art dealership, Berlin) / thence by descent to the present owner, North Rhine-Westphalia