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| Artist: | Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934) — 竹久夢二 |
| Title: | Ine |
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| Date of first edition?: | 1938 |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Kato Junji |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Kato Junji |
| 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: | 40037 |
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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, 26 September 2009
Shin Hanga: Woman's Hood
Lot AU62
Artist: Umeji Takahisa
Format: Large oban tate-e: 17" x 12" approx
Subject: Kato the publisher produced a number of prints from sketches and designs by Umeji, particularly of young Japanese women in early 1920's western fashions.
This example is probably the most famous. Produced in a limited edition of 150 impressions, of which this is numbered 30. Complete with original folder
Subject reproduced, full page colour, in Smith, The Japanese Print Since 1900. page 78 #64.
Publisher: Junji Kato, Tokyo
Date: 1938
Condition: Full size. Very light foxing to verso. Minor marks and flaws. Generally very good state.
Colour: Fine
Impression: Very fine, printed on de luxe Japanese art paper
Estimated Value: £500 - £750 |
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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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