Kuniyoshi, Utagawa (1797-1861): Quarreling Couple Auction
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KUNIYOSHI, Utagawa (1797-1861): Quarreling Couple
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  • Artist: KUNIYOSHI, Utagawa (1797-1861)
  • Title:Quarreling Couple
  • 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 in black ink; with pentimento.
  • Size/Format:c. 13 1/8" x 10"
  • Description:Inside a house by the entrance, a man and a woman quarrel fiercely Behind them, through the open door we see a porter in his sedan chair, apparently waiting to pick up one of the two quarreling persons. - A pentimento contains minor corrections to the position of the man's face: see separate detail picture. - 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.
  • Condition:Fine.

    Reserve: $6,500.00

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    KUNIYOSHI, Utagawa (1797-1861): Quarreling Couple

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