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KITAGAWA UTAMARO (1753?-1806)KATSUKAWA SHUNCHO (ACTIVE CIRCA 1780-1801)

Two shunga prints

    Price Realised GBP 1,500
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    GBP 1,500 - GBP 2,000
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    KITAGAWA UTAMARO (1753?-1806)KATSUKAWA SHUNCHO (ACTIVE CIRCA 1780-1801)

    Two shunga prints

    Price Realised GBP 1,500
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    Price Realised GBP 1,500
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    Details
    Two woodblock prints comprising:
    - A man with his lover, having interrupted her at her toilette; her foot reflected in the mirror, from the album The Prelude to Desire (Negai no itoguchi), 1799, unsigned (by Utamaro)
    - A husband and wife on the ledge of an open window, from the series Erotic Prints for the Twelve Months (Koshoku zue juniko), circa 1788, unsigned (by Shuncho)

    Both horizontal oban:
    25.6 x 38.6 cm. (10 ⅛ x 15 ¼ in.)
    23.4 x 36.5 cm. (9 ¼ x 14 ⅜ in.)


    Provenance
    Sylvia Lacan (1908-1993) and thence by descent to the present owner. Sylvia Lacan was married to the French intellectual Georges Bataille (1897-1962), then the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901-1981).
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