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Title: Cool Breeze
Very Rare.
Signature: Mokurei.
Seal: Artist's red seal.
Dated: Ca. 1940 - 50s.(?)
Technique: Woodblock print
Width Item: 10.6 inches = 27.0 cm
Height Item: 16.1 inches = 41.0 cm
Width Image: 9.1 inches = 23.0 cm
Height Image: 13.8 inches = 35.0 cm
Impression: Excellent - Very good.
Colors: Very good.
Quality: Very good ... Toned. Slight foxing. Slight creases.
Description "Ryofu" (Cool Breeze). A beauty in light summer kimono. She is holding a blue "uchiwa" fan, and sitting on a rattan chair next to a bamboo window screen. She seems contemplating something in the cool breeze in a summer evening. A rarely seen portrait of a modern beauty by Mokurei. Her fashionable, western style coiffure is expertly expressed in the crisp lines and fine gradations. |