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First Make-up of the New Year

First Make-up of the New Year
by Domoto Insho

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Artist: Domoto Insho 堂本印象
Title: First Make-up of the New Year
Series: 
Date of first edition?1935/1
Date of this artwork?1935 (may not be accurate)
Publisher (first edition)?Baba Nobuhiko 馬場信彦
Publisher (this edition)?Baba Nobuhiko 馬場信彦
Medium (first edition): Woodblock
Medium (this edition): Woodblock
Format (first edition): Large Oban
Format (this edition): Large Oban
DB artwork code: 27205
Notes (first edition)?
Sunday, 2 December 2007
Notes (this edition)?
The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:





First Make-up of the New Year

Artist: Domoto Insho
Format: Dai Oban tate-e: 19.75" x 14.5

Subject: A young beauty adjusting her coiffure with a hair-pin as she examines herself in a hand-mirror. She is scantilly attired in a see-through silk wrap. This wonderful image is further enhanced by exquisite printing. For a full page illustration see 'The Female Image', Hotei Publications, page 167.

Date: 1935

Condition: Superb colors. Full size with large margins. Minor creasing in margins. A light horizontal crease mark. Generally fine state of preservation.

Impression: Very fine impression with heavy gauffrage, gold pigment and lacquer on the mirror

Artist Bio: 

明治24年京都生れ。本名三之助。明治43年京都市立美術工芸学校を卒業後、しばらく西陣織の図案描きに従事し、大正7年、日本画家を志し て京都市立絵画専門学校に入学。翌8年、初出品した「深草」が第1回帝展に入選した。第3回展では「調鞠図」で特選、また、第6回展の「華厳」では帝国美術院賞を受賞するなど一躍画壇の花形となった。絵画専門学校の教授として、また私塾東丘社の主宰者としても多くの後進を育成、昭和19年、帝室技芸員となった。  戦後は、独自の社会風俗画により日本画壇に刺激を与えた。昭和25年、芸術院会員。さらに昭和30年以降は抽象表現の世界に分け入り、その華麗な変遷は世界を驚かせた。多くの国際展にも招かれ、昭和36年には文化勲章を受章した。

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