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| Artist: | Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934) — 竹久夢二 |
| Title: | A Sad Woman |
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| Date of first edition?: | Not set |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Unknown — 不明 |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Unknown — 不明 |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Not Set
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| Format (this edition): | Koban |
| DB artwork code: | 40449 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Friday, 6 April 2007
A Sad Woman by Yumeji Takehisa. Genuine handcrafted Japanese woodblock print. Fine condition. Print measures 6.9 x 4.7 inches. Strong texture and ink bleedthrough on fine washi. tipped to presentation stock on 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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