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| Artist: | Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934) — 竹久夢二 |
| Title: | Kaeru - Frog |
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| Date of first edition?: | Not set |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Kyoto Hanga-In Oedo Ban |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Kyoto Hanga-In Oedo Ban |
| 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: | 39978 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Tuesday, 2 January 2007
Title Beauty
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 Original was made in early 20th century
Publisher Kyoto Hanga-in, Oh'edo Ban
Medium/Technique Woodblock print
Impression excellent - very good … (this printing ca. 1975)
Colors excellent
Condition excellent - very good … light toning, slightly creased.
Description "Kaeru" (Frog). A beauty from the series "Takehisa Yumeji Moku-Hangashu" (Woodblock Prints of Takehisa Yumeji) by Kyoto Hanga-in. This design was shown on pl.63b, "The Japanese Print since 1900" by Lawrence Smith, British Museum Publications, 1983.
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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