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| Artist: | Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934) — 竹久夢二 |
| Title: | Sprucing Up - The touch of flannel — ネルの感触 |
| Series: | Ten Female Subjects — 女十題 |
| Date of first edition?: | 1921 |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Self |
| Medium (first edition): | Watercolour |
| Format (first edition): | Not Set
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Thursday, 15 June 2006
Neru no Kanshoku (Sprucing Up) by Takehisa Yumeji. Genuine woodblock print. Fine condition. Showa era impression numbered 166 of 280 in left margin. Artists' name, title and Takamizawa publisher's seal also in left margin. Large size measures 17.2 x 13.0 inches. Good ink bleedthrough on thick washi. Nice baren rubbings on verso. Title also embossed in bottom margin. Comes with original presentation folder.
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| Artist Bio: |
Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934) was a leading figure in the Taisho Romanticism movement that combined Western romanticism with native Japanese styles during the Taisho Period (1912-1926). He was a painter, writer, poet, bookbinder and illustrator whose drawings of women with thin bodies and large eyes filled with melancholy were known as Yumeji Bijin-ga. During the height of his popularity he was called the “modern Utamaro” and the Japanese “Toulouse-Lautrec and Edvard Munch”. His prints epitomized the relationship between popular art and the woodblock.
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