Sunday, July 21, 2024
July Online Auction | LOT #58 - Japanese Woodblock Prints
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LOT #58
Japanese Woodblock Prints
(3) total items including a grouping of three woodblock pages from Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) “Transmitting the Spirit, Revealing Form of Things: Picture Album of Drawings at One Stroke” (Denshin kaishu ippitsu gafu) published 1823, depicting cranes, silk matted together behind glass in a single gold-tone wood frame as well as an Utagawa Kuniyasu (1794-1832) oban diptych “Improvised Amusement in the Yoshiwara” (Shin Yoshiwara Odori Kyogen) matted behind glass in a wood frame with brass mounts and informational sheet verso; together with a Korean minhwa ink and color wash painting on paper of a tiger and a magpie matted behind glass in a metal frame
Estimate: $600 - $800
Hammer Price: $350
Dimensions: Height: 14 inches, Width: 9 1/4 inches (each image, widest frame); Frame Height: 21 1/4 inches, Frame Width: 38 1/4 inches
Condition: Hokusai print having an ink smudge at lower left of center, Kuniyasu having a few minuscule spots, Korean minhwa having a crease and repaired tear top edge, light wear to frames, Hokusai print having an ink smudge at lower left of center, Kuniyasu having a few minuscule spots, Korean minhwa having a crease and repaired tear top edge, light wear to frames
Disclaimers: not examined out of the frames
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