KUNIYOSHI, Utagawa (1797-1861): Fishes with actors heads

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Artist: KUNIYOSHI, Utagawa (1797-1861)

Title:Fishes with actors heads

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:c. 1840s

Medium:sumi (black ink) on paper.

Size/Format:6 5/8" x 13 3/8"

Description:A very rare preparatory drawing by Kuniyoshi for his 'Fishes with actors heads' series. - From an album with Kuniyoshi drawings formerly in the possession of the Utagawa school. - - 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: $1,200.00

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