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| Artist: | Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934) — 竹久夢二 |
| Title: | Beauty 1 |
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| Date of first edition?: | Not set |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Kyoto Hanga-In — 京都版画院 |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Kyoto Hanga-In — 京都版画院 |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Not Set
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| Format (this edition): | Large Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 39905 |
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| Notes (this edition)?: |
| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Title Beauty
later edition
Artist Yumeji Takehisa 1884-1934
Signature "Takehisa Yumeji Mokuhanga Shu" printed on the left margin, "Yumeji" on the image
Seal Artist's seal "Takehisa"
Dated printing ca. 1950s
Publisher Kyoto Hanga-in, Oh'edo Ban
Medium/Technique Woodblock print
Impression excellent
Colors excellent
Condition excellent - very good … light toning, slightly creased on the margins, slight faintcolored foxing on the lower margin.
Description A beauty from the series "Takehisa Yumeji Hangashu" (Prints of Takehisa Yumeji) by Kyoto Hanga-in. Yumeji was famous for the depiction of dreamy, somewhat sad faced girls.
Note Carver Endo, printer Ito
Width Item 15.2 inches = 38.5 cm
Height Item 19.8 inches = 50.2 cm
Width Image 9.8 inches = 25.0 cm
Height Image 17.7 inches = 45.0 cm |
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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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