Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
November 1920
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/460
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    231 232 233 234 - 235 236 tych, a woman standing beating the insects down, another holding a fan, and a young girl looking into a cage; full size, upright ; signed UTAMARO Hinatsuru of Chodji-ya on parade, passing to the right, back view with head turned to the right, her dress embroidered with the TAKARAMONO, a SHINZO with hand up to her mouth, and a KAMURO, both on her left side; /ull size, upright; signed UTAMARO This from a rare set without title, bearing two panels, one with the name of the courtezan, and the other long and narrow with a poem. [See Illustration. Plate VIT}\. Fujin Tomari-Kyaku no zu, “View of a Female- visitors’ Stopping-place.” Triptych. Three Ladies arranging themselves on the bedding under a mosquito curtain for a night’s rest, the lady of the house standing in the centre talking to one of them, and two servants, one at the left fastening up the curtain, and the other on the right putting away garments; /ull size, upright ; stgned UTAMARO; framed [See Illustration. Plate V]. A Yoshiwara Scene: Triptych. A Group of half-drunken revellers, three in a mad dance to the singing and music of men beating an empty SAKE bottle and scraping a bass broom with a fan; a man and woman reclining against a screen, another woman leaning over a SAKADARU, and two other men on the floor in a more idiotic stage of intoxication ; med7um size, upright; signed UTAMARO Enoshima Yuryo Awabi Tori no zu, “ A View of Awabi-fishing for pleasure at Enoshima.” Three sheets of this hexaptych, with half-nude female divers, and boys with rod and line on a piece of jutting rock ; quarter-block size; signed UTAMARO; framed Awabi-shell Divers on the Coast of Ise; the left-hand sheet of a triptych. ‘Two half-nude divers in a boat, one standing wringing out her skirt, and a lady and child on the bank ; full size, upright ; signed UTAMARO; framed Joshoku Kaiko Tewaza-gusa, ‘Women’s Work in the Cultiva- tion of the Silk Worm,” a set of twelve full size upright prints mounted in an album, stgned UTAMARO; First edition, printed
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