Artist |
ITO, Shinsui (1898-1972) |
Title |
"After the Bath" ("Yokugo") |
Date |
1930, Summer (Limited Edition #148/250) |
Provenance |
Consigned by a discriminating eastcoast USA collector. |
Series |
"The First Collection of Modern Beauties" (1929-31) ("Gendai Bijin-shu Dai-issuh") |
Publisher |
Watanabe Shozaburo |
Seal, Carver/Printer |
Watanabe "6-mm" seal (used on early Shinsui prints). Red "Limited Edition #148/250" seal verso. |
Image Size |
10 x 16 ("dai-oban") |
Impression |
Very Fine. Skillfully executed "bokashi" shading to face and hair-band; extensive "gauffrage" (embossing)
to entire blue kimono and hand towel; strong circular "baren sujizuri" to entire background. |
Condition |
Nearly Excellent. Very good colors. Clean frontside and verso. (Very soft 2 1/2" crease (perhaps natural) to right edge;
1 1/4" scratch to top hair; slight wear; pencil notation lower verso margin.) |
Reference/Illus |
"The Female Image," Plate #59; Blair's 1936 "Toledo Exhibition" pl. #146. |
Comments |
Clothed in an elaborate blue and white cotton kimono, a beauty wrings a towel as she holds up her long sleeves
in her teeth. First Edition. Rare. |
Item # |
MM-21 |
Price |
Special $2400 (SOLD/WA) (Reg $3200) |