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| Artist: | Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934) — 竹久夢二 |
| Title: | Portrait of a woman |
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| Date of first edition?: | 1920 (circa) |
| Date of this artwork?: | c. 1920 (may not be accurate) |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Self |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Self |
| Medium (first edition): | Sketch (pencil/pastel) |
| Medium (this edition): | Sketch (pencil/pastel) |
| Format (first edition): | Koban
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| Format (this edition): | Koban |
| DB artwork code: | 39901 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Saturday, 18 November 2006
Artist
Takehisa Yumeji
Series
Title
Portrait of a woman
Date Of Work
c. 1920
Publisher
Dimensions
8.375 x 5.625
Condition
Fine
Notes
A fine pencil drawing with color. Signed and sealed LR. Certificate of Authenticity on back of frame.
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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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