KUNIYOSHI, Utagawa (1797-1861) - The Attack (a stage scene)

Description

Artist:KUNIYOSHI, Utagawa (1797-1861)

Title:The Attack (a stage scene)

Series: From a group of Kuniyoshi drawings collected at the artist's school, serving as study material for the master's students (Ref.Lit.: Matthi Forrer, "Drawings by Utagawa Kuniyoshi - from the collection of the National Museum of Ethnology, The Hague"); 1988.

Date:1830s-40s

Medium:Preparatory brush drawing for a woodblock print, black ink on paper.

Size/Format:8 1/4" x 12 3/8"

Description:A man threatens a woman with a knife,- two men are watching the event. With pentimento changing details of the attacker's face. - This preparatory drawing ('shita-e') was part of a group of such drawings collected by the Utagawa school in numbered albums which served as study material for the school's students; the drawings now are dispersed in museum and private collections worldwide.

Reserve: $1,400.00

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Condition

Empty, upper left part of the paper missing, not unusual for such preliminary sketches. - Else, in fine condition. Mounted on very thin backing paper.

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