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| Notes (1st edition) | TITLE: Tipsy Edition of 100 SERIES: Womens Manners of Today DATE: 1930 SIZE: 19 x 12 MEDIUM: Woodblock Print PUBLISHER: Privately published CONDITION: Fine impression, color and condition. Note: The series is alternatively listed in Merrit, Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblocks as: "Modern Fashionable Styles" (Kindai Jisei Sho), 1930-31. Tipsy, published in February 1930, is the first print in the series and is widely known as the best print in the series. In our opinion, Tipsy is the best print in all of the shin-hanga genre because it captures the tone of the era and is not overly sentimental. Commenting on his own role in the genre of ukiyo-e in the March 1938 issue of Ukiyo-e Geijutsu, Kiyoshi wrote: "I copied Ukiyo-e and stuidied them, but I have found nothing to learn from them as an artist. Since only people who live in Edo could depict the atmosphere of Edo, there is no use in copying their style. In the Showa period, we have the art of Showa. Even if I try to draw a scene reminiscent of the time of Harunobu, my drawing would inevitably express the healthfull beauties of today. I do not just draw customs and manners but try to capture the essence of the time in which we live. Kiyoshi Kobayakawa quoted by Amy Reigle, The New Wave at 177. Ken Brown describes Kiyoshi's desire to cause social disruption with a little more color: "Here is the consummate Moga as sex object. Alone in a nightclub, she sits with her cigarette in hand and a cocktail before her, and doubtless, one already inside her. Kiyoshi cuts off the woman's elbows and most of the art deco table to let ther viewer engage her, as if in intimate conversation. The woman is thoroughly contemporary…She wears her hair cropped and curled; the barette and spit curl signal her conformity to the latest Western trends. Her pearl necklace, watchband and large cabochon ring accessorize her daring polka-dot patterned, sleveless dress. Lest we miss the point, Kiyoshi places this modern Venus against a saturated crimson background that, together with the cropped composition, sets the aggressively passionate mood even as it thrusts her nearly into the viewer's lap. Against this red ambiance, her rouged and parted lips glow like the burning tip of her cigarette, with its curl of rising smoke. Her inebriation brings a slight pink hue to the alabaster flesh of her arms; and her dilated pupils swim inside her alcohol-stained eyes like the swollen cherry in her green tinted glass". Ken Brown, Taisho Chic, Japanese Modernity, Nostalgia and Deco, 2002 Honolulu Academy of the Arts Exhibition catalog, at p. 34 The design was featured as the cover illustration for the touring exhibition of Deco Japan, Shaping Art and Culture, 1920 - 1945. Illustrated in The New Wave at 177, fig. 220, Illustrated in Taisho Chic, ibid. | ||
| Publisher (this edition): | Privately published | Privately published | Privately published |
| Date of this item: | 1930 | ||
| Notes (this edition) These notes were written by the original owner/seller/auctioner of the item and may be inaccurate.: | TITLE: Tipsy 4/100 SERIES: Fashions of the Modern World DATE: 1930 SIZE: 20.375 x 11.75 MEDIUM: Woodblock Print |
TITLE: Tipsy Edition: 27/100 SERIES: Womens Manners of Today DATE: 1930 SIZE: 19 x 12 MEDIUM: Woodblock Print PUBLISHER: Privately published CONDITION: Fine impression, color and condition. |
Artist: Kobayakawa Kiyoshi Title: Tipsy Print Type: Limited Edition Woodblock Print Series Title: Woman's Manners of Today Edition No: #19/100. First Edition Date: 1930 Publisher: Self-published Reference No: Female Image, #189 - Full page Size: 20-1/4 x 11-3/4 " Condition: Very fine impression and color. Fine state. Full-size sheet. A faint horizontal centerfold. Notes: Kobayakawa Kiyoshi was born and worked in Kyushu, in southern Japan. While limited to 100 numbered examples, all indications are that the print received only limited distribution, due to the artists' being so far from Tokyo. This, and the fact that he was little known at the time, are reasons that examples of this design are so seldom seen. The print is edge mounted and floated on acid-free, museum board, with an 8-ply, bevel-cut over-matte, measuring 28-3/4 x 20 inches - ready for framing. An example was recently sold in Japan for $70,000! ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS 20TH CENTURY PRINTS - REFERRED TO AS, "THE EPITOME OF THE IMAGE OF THE 'MODAN GARU' (MODERN GIRL)". |