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Five woodblock prints from the series Mirrors for Collage Pictures in the Modern Style

Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865)

Name: Five woodblock prints from the series Mirrors for Collage Pictures in the Modern Style
Brand: Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865)
Price: 550.00 GBP
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Price Realised GBP 687.50

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Closed: 7 Aug 2014

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Five woodblock prints from the series Mirrors for Collage Pictures in the Modern Style

Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865)

Price Realised GBP 687.50

Closed: 7 Aug 2014

Price Realised GBP 687.50

Closed: 7 Aug 2014

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FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION

Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865)
Five woodblock prints from the series Imayo oshi-e kagami [Mirrors for Collage Pictures in the Modern Style], each signed Toyokuni ga, and published by Fujiokaya Keijiro (Shorindo), 1859-1861

Portrait of the actor Seki Hanasuke as Tanizawa Kazumanosuke
Portrait of the actor Nakamura Fukusuke I as Ohara Takematsu
Portrait of the actor Ichikawa Kodanjji IV as Yamazakiya Yojibei
Portrait of the actor Ichikawa Saruzo as Tezuka Taro
Portrait of the actor Onoe Waichi II as Shimobe Tomohira
Each vertical oban (each approx. 35.3 x 24.3cm.)

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Lot Essay

Kunisada designed several series of portraits of actors reflected in mirrors.

For another impression of the first and fourth in the British Museum see www.britishmuseum.org museum numbers 2003,0307,0.38 and 2003,0307,0.30 respectively. For another impression of the second, third and fifth in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston see www.mfa.org accession numbers 11.40950,11.40958 and 11.40966 respectively.