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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861)
A group of six elegant beauties chatting under flowering cherry trees on the bank of the pond in the palace garden.
Title: Go-shita yashiki haru no asobi (Spring Amusements at the Honourable Lower Palace)
Serie: Shiki no uchi (The Four Seasons)
Signature: Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
Seal: Kiri mon
Publisher: Hamadaya Tokubei (Hamatoku, Kiyûdô), Edo
Censors: Hama, Magome
Date: 1849-1852
Size: Ôban Triptychon, overall c. 35,5 x 72,5 cm
Excellent impression, very good colours, with embossing. The three sheets unbacked and separate. Slightly trimmed. Bottom corners of right and left sheets a little creased and thinned, reinforced from verso. Bottom left corner of left sheet professionally restored. Overall very good condition. A rare bijin triptych from a small series showing beautiful ladies in the four seasons. Robinson 1961, no. 130. Cf. British Museum, 2008,3037.18707. Kuniyoshi Project, triptychs and diptychs of beautiful women Part I (with three variants).
€ 2.200,-