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| Artist: | Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934) — 竹久夢二 |
| Title: | Babies Clothes — 産衣 |
| Series: | Ten Female Subjects — 女十題 |
| Date of first edition?: | 1921 |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Self |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Self |
| Medium (first edition): | Watercolour |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Not Set
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| Format (this edition): | Koban |
| DB artwork code: | 40404 |
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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, 10 March 2007
Bijin by Yumeji Takehisa. Genuine handcrafted Japanese woodblock print. Fine condition. Later Showa era impression. Good texture and ink bleedthrough on fine Japanese washi. 6.6 x 4.6 inches. Tipped to presentation card on verso top corners. |
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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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