Wife and Lamp — 夫人とランプ　
by Takasawa Keiichi

Original caretaker of this artwork: Yahoo Auction, Japan

	Artist:	Takasawa Keiichi — 高沢圭一
	Title:	Wife and Lamp — 夫人とランプ
	Series:
	Date of first edition?:	circa 1970-1990
	Publisher (first edition)?:	Self
	Publisher (this edition)?:	Self
	Medium (first edition):	Oil painting
	Medium (this edition):	Oil painting
	Format (first edition):	Double Oban
	Format (this edition):	Double Oban
	DB artwork code:	43629
	Notes (first edition)?:
	Notes (this edition)?:	The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies: There is another example of this scene "Wife and Lamp" in the JAODB database, and I am not sure which is a fake (perhaps both). 高沢圭一　★　額装　『　人物画　』　油彩　★肉筆 【画　寸】　５０×６０cm ※ヤケや汚れの付着が見られる程度で、傷みは少なく状態は良い方かと思いますが、本紙には、時代なりのヤケ・シミ・折れや表装以前の虫食い、折れに添った裂け等が見られます。肉筆です。
	Artist Bio:	Takasawa Keiichi was born in Gunma prefecture in 1914. In 1936 he dropped out of Nihon University school of technology, and subsequently he studied with Fujita Tsugeharu, who strongly influenced him. In 1937 he joined the Army News Department in Shanghai. In 1939 he won the Asahi award for one of his paintings. After the war he started making illustrations for women's magazines, and he was the author of A pictorial story of the kimono (1947), and of Women of Japan (1955). He also made woodblock prints, often based on his paintings. In 1974 an 1975 he had two major exhibitions in Paris. In 1977 an important publication on his paintings, Takasawa Keiichi ga shu appeared. The slender, long necked beauty often appeared in his works was said to be his wife. たかざわ・けいいち　大正３年群馬県生まれ　日大芸術学科中退　挿絵を描くかたわら現代美人画（油絵）の制作に情熱を注ぎ各地で個展　1974年パリのバンドーム画廊で「花と蝶」と題する個展を開き話題を集める　1975年フランス　ル・サロン展で受賞　「婦人公論」の表紙絵を担当する　1976年随筆「画になる女」第一回日本随筆家協会賞受賞