Name: KITAGAWA FUJIMARO (?-1830)
Brand: Two Beauties in Snow
Price: 17000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

KITAGAWA FUJIMARO (?-1830)
Two Beauties in Snow
Signed Fujimaro hitsu, sealed Shikosai and Fujimaro
Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
37 x 12⁷⁄₈ in. (94 x 32.7 cm.)

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Lot Essay

Although little is known about Fujimaro, he mainly produced paintings of beauties and never worked on woodblock prints. He is thought to be a pupil of Kitagawa Utamaro (1754-1806) but the details of his career are unclear. Initially painting Utamaro-style beauties, he gradually developed his own distinctive style painting of beauties with slender faces and slanting eyes.
A painting by the same artist is in the collection of the Portland Art Museum, Oregon, see http://portlandartmuseum.us/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=12532;type=101