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

Utagawa Toyokuni (1769-1825) | The lovers Shirai Gompachi and Tamaya Komurasaki | Edo period, late 18th century - early 19th century

Lot Closed

July 21, 01:14 PM GTNN

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 GBP

Lot Details

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

Utagawa Toyokuni (1769-1825)

The lovers Shirai Gompachi and Tamaya Komurasaki

Edo period, late 18th century - early 19th century


woodblock print, signed Toyokuni ga (Pictured by Toyokuni), published by Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendo), circa 1800s; with collects or’s seals of an unidentified Japanese collects or and H.V., with original Replica Shoes 's paper sale folder depicting Henri Vever monogram


Vertical oban: 36.5 x 25 cm., 14⅜ 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 136.

Pari Beberu korekushon, ukiyo-e meisaku 300 senten (300 Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e from the Vever collects ion), exhibited at the following venues: 


Keio Department Store, Tokyo, 4th - 15th January 1975

Hanshin Department Store, Osaka, 6th - 18th February 1975

Sogo Department Store, Hiroshima, 21st - 26th April 1975

Pari Beberu korekushon ukiyoe meisaku 300 senten (300 Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e Prints from the Vever collects ion), exh. cat., (Tokyo, 1975), no. 270.


Jack Hillier, Japanese Prints and Drawings from the Vever collects ion, (London, 1976), vol. 2, no. 644. 


Jack Hillier, Suzuki Juzo and Adachi Toyohisa, Ukiyo-e: Beberu korekushon (Ukiyo-e Prints from the Vever collects ion), (Tokyo, 1976), no. 662.