Kunisada: A summerday at the beach
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Kunisada: A summerday at the beach
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Kunisada: A summerday at the beach
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Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (1786-1865)
Three women and a girl with their booty of collected shells and a captured octopus returning from the sea on a summer's day. In the background on the beach a multitude of other shellfish hunters are bustling about.
Untitled.
Signature: Utagawa Toyokuni ga (right), Kôchôrô Toyokuni ga (middle), Ichiyôsai Toyokuni ga (left). Top right for the background landscape signed: Monjin (student) Kunimasa ga.
Publisher Yamaguchiya Tôbei (Kinkôdô), Edo
Censor: Hama
Date: 1843-46
Size: Ôban triptych, c. 36,5 x 75,5 cm (overall)
Good impression and very good colours. Unbacked, untrimmed, the two left sheets mounted together, the right sheet separate. Small binding holes and wormholes at margins. Rubbed at lower margin, some smaller stains and (print-related?) colour wipes. Good to very good overall condition.
Rare. Another copy (in very similar impression and colour quality) illustrated in Ann-Katrin Hahn (ed.), Bilder der fließenden Welt, Münster 2016, p 136f, Cat. No. 103
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