Utagawa Toyokuni I (1769-1825) - image-1

Lot 527 Dα

Utagawa Toyokuni I (1769-1825)

Auction 1112 - overview Cologne
16.06.2018, 11:00 - Japan
Estimate: 500 € - 600 €
Result: 930 € (incl. premium)

Utagawa Toyokuni I (1769-1825)

Ôban. The actors Sawamura Gennosuke and Onoe Eisaburô as the falconers Shozan from the Kinokuniya school and Gachô from the Otabaya school. With poem by Shikitei Sanba. Signed: Toyokuni ga. Publisher: Shimizuya. About 1810. Good impression, blind printing, colours still good, rubbed and soiled especially along margins, several backed holes, upper left corner repaired, laid down at upper corners

Provenance

Collector’s initials Julius Kurth in pencil on mat
From an old German private collection

Literature

Ill. in Succo, Toyokuni, no. 524/table 82