Notes (1st edition) | Ito Shinsui, 1898-1972
The Second Series of Modern Beauties: Nails
(Gendai bijinshu dai-nishu: Tsume)
Signed and dated at upper right, Showa hinoe-ne hachigatsu, Shinsui ga (Showa, year of the rat [1937], 8th month, by Shinsui), with artist's seal Shinsui. The publisher's red circular seal, Watanabe, at lower right, and copyright seal on lower left margin, Hanken shoyu fukyo mosha Watanabe Shozaburo (copyright ownership, reproduction not allowed, Watanabe Shozaburo). With limited edition seal on verso, (250 limited edition), followed by publisher's rectangular seal, Watanabe.
Dai oban tate-e 44.3 by 28.5 cm |
Notes (this edition) These notes were written by the original owner/seller/auctioner of the item and may be inaccurate.: | Ito Shinsui, 1898-1972 The Second Series of Modern Beauties: Nails (Gendai bijinshu dai-nishu: Tsume)
Signed and dated at upper right, Showa hinoe-ne hachigatsu, Shinsui ga (Showa, year of the rat [1937], 8th month, by Shinsui), with artist's seal Shinsui. The publisher's red circular seal, Watanabe, at lower right, and copyright seal on lower left margin, Hanken shoyu fukyo mosha Watanabe Shozaburo (copyright ownership, reproduction not allowed, Watanabe Shozaburo). With limited edition seal on verso, Nihyakugoju mai zeppan, dai gojuhachi ban (250 limited edition, number 58), followed by publisher's rectangular seal, Watanabe. dai oban tate-e 44.3 by 28.5 cm |
Description - Measures 17" tall x 11.25" wide. Photos were taken in natural light outdoors. Watanabe publisher seal along margin of lower left side and red series seal and gift seal on verso. This is the most desirable of the prints in Shinsui's Second Series of Modern Beauties.
This is edition 113 of 250. |