Masters of the Woodblock: Important Japanese Prints

Masters of the Woodblock: Important Japanese Prints

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 9. Kitagawa Utamaro (1754-1806) | The Asahiya Widow | Edo period, late 18th century.

Property from an Important European collects ion (Lots 1 - 17, All Formerly in the collects ion of Henri Vever)

Kitagawa Utamaro (1754-1806) | The Asahiya Widow | Edo period, late 18th century

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July 21, 01:09 PM GTNN

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40,000 - 50,000 GBP

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Property from an Important European collects ion (Lots 1 - 17, All Formerly in the collects ion of Henri Vever)

Kitagawa Utamaro (1754-1806)

The Asahiya Widow

Edo period, late 18th century


woodblock print, from the series Six Selected Elegant Poems (Furyu Rokkasen), signed Utamaro hitsu (Brush of Utamaro), published by Omiya Gonkuro, circa 1796; with collects or’s seal H.V., with original Replica Shoes 's paper sale folder depicting Henri Vever monogram


Vertical oban: 39 x 25.1 cm., 15⅜ x 9⅞ in.

Henri Vever (1854-1942)

Sotheby’s, London, Highly Important Japanese Prints from the Henri Vever collects ion: Final Part, 30 October 1997, Lot 95.

Jack Hillier, Japanese Prints and Drawings from the Vever collects ion, (London, 1976), vol. 2, no. 462. 

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