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Lot 226 Dα

Yanagawa Shigenobu II - Yanagawa Shigenobu II (active ca. 1820s–late 1850s)

Auction 1203 - overview Cologne
11.06.2022, 11:00 - Asian Art
Estimate: 800 € - 1.000 €
Result: 1.512 € (incl. premium)

Yanagawa Shigenobu II

Yanagawa Shigenobu II (active ca. 1820s–late 1850s)

Shikishiban. Surimono. Series: Hana awase. No. 8. Title: Sono hachi – Udonge. Man with fan and small table next to a kneeling woman. Three poems by Chôjintei, Keitei and Shakuyakutei. Signed: Yanagawa Shigenobu. Seal: Yanagawa. Published by the Sugawara group. Ca. 1825-1830. Very good impression, colours somewhat faded, gold, silver, paper slightly soiled in upper left area, framed (not examined outside frame).

Udonge is the plant Ficus Glomerata, which takes 3000 years to flower. It hence represents a rare stroke of luck.

Provenance

Estate, Aachen

Literature

Cf. Matthi Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 381