Name: A preparatory ink drawing for a triptych design
Brand: Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
Price: 5500.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

A PRIVATE ENGLISH COLLECTION OF PRINTS BY UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
A preparatory ink drawing for a triptych design of Obata Nyudo, Katsuchiyo Maru and Yamamoto Kansuke with their retainers who are being tossed in the air by a giant wild boar

Ink on paper, signed Kuniyoshi ga, artists seal yoshikiri, framed and glazed
Vertical oban triptych (including frame: 57.7 x 96.7cm.)

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There is no known impression which survives from this design however there is a single sheet print of the same subject, also by Kuniyoshi, showing Yamamoto Kansuke fighting a a giant wild boar in the snow. See www.mfa.org accession number 11.26080.

The print is accompanied by a photocopied letter from B.W. Robinson giving his opinion on this work to the owner in 1987. He details the subject given above and indicates a date of around 1852.

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