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Notes (1st edition)Artist: Kotondo Title Nap Date Of Work: 1933 Publisher : Ikeda Dimensions: 18.5 x 11.625 Notes: Edition of 100. The publisher Ikeda X'ed out the blocks after finishing the edition. Dated February 1933 (confirmed). Limited edition of only 100 prints, after which the blocks were destroyed. I have seen both "A Nap" and "Hair Combing" marked as scene number 7. One of them must be scene 8 in reality. Ikeda published a total of 12 scenes.
Publisher (this edition): Ikeda Ikeda Ikeda
Date of this item: 1933 February 1933 February
Notes (this edition)
These notes were written by the original owner/seller/auctioner of the item and may be inaccurate.:
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Lot 88
TORII KOTONDO
(1900-1976)

A Nap 1933
woodblock
40.5 x 25.5 cm (image), 46.5 x 29.5 cm (sheet)
signed and stamped with artist's seal within image
embossed with title below image
printer's limited edition cartouche printed verso
edition: First edition, Ikeda Publishers

Provenance:
Mr Edwin A. Dearn, Japan, c1930s
Thence by descent, private collection, Sydney

No edition number on the verso. Among a set of 10 Kotondo/Ikeda prints with no edition numbers.		 Artist:
Kotondo, Torii, 1900-1977
Title: A Nap
Edition: 53/100
Date: 1930
Medium: woodblock
Dimensions: 15 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches
Illustrated: Beauties, pl. 177-1
Condition: Faint tape stains at corners on reverse; toning at bottom corners; blanket slightly faded.

Later on http://www.scholten-japanese-art.com/:

Torii Kotondo, 1900-1976
A Nap
(Utatane)

with deep red background; signed Kotondo ga with artist's rectangular seal Kotondo, the title along the bottom margin, Utatane (A Nap), with publisher's limited edition cartouche on verso, Ikeda hanken shoyu, hyaku mai kagiri zeppan, hakkai dai gojusan go (copyright Ikeda, edition limited to 100, 8th print, 53 number), with artist's bird seal Torii, ca. February 1933
dai oban tate-e 18 3/8 by 11 5/8 in., 46.6 by 29.5 cm
There is a variant impression (likely an earlier version) of this print with a pale tan background also illustrated in The Female Image (pl. 177-2).
References:
Gallery Beniya, Torii Kotondo, 1995, p. 18, no. 9
Reigle Newland, Amy, and Hamanaka Shinji, The Female Image, 2000, p. 132, pl. 177-1		 Condition: Fine impression, color and condition.
52/100
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