KUNISADA (1786-1865). Ichikawa Monnosuke III. (Sold)
Artist:
Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865)
Subject:
Ichikawa Monnosuke III (1794-1824) as the courtesan Akoya.
Series:
Contemporary Pressed-Cloth Battledores (Tōsei oshi-e hagoita). A series of at least ten prints of retrospective portraits of kabuki actors inside hagoita battledores.
Signature:
Ōju Gototei Kunisada ga
Date:
1823 ca. Censor seal kiwame
Publisher:
Azumaya Daisuke
Size:
Ōban tate-e, 38x25,5 cm
Medium:
Woodblock color print.
Literature:
Other prints from this series are illustrated in Eiko Kondo. Il teatro "kabuki" nelle xilografie del periodo Edo. Roma: Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale, 1984. Sebastian Izzard (Editor). Kunisada's World. New York 1993, p. 91. Robert Schaap. Kunisada: imaging drama and beauty. Leiden, 2016, Hotei Publishing.
Remarks:
Another two impression are in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, n. 11.22257, 11.25951
Conditions:
Fine impression and color, faint centre fold, small repairs, good conditions.
Item no:
C 1031
Status:
Sold