Katsushika Hokusai - A Chinese dance - image-1
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Lot 302 Dα

Katsushika Hokusai - A Chinese dance

Auction 1226 - overview Cologne
21.06.2023, 10:30 - Asian Art
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €
Result: 5.418 € (incl. premium)

Katsushika Hokusai

A Chinese dance

Double yokonagaban, surimono/invitation. Chinese dance act. Signed: Katsushika Hokusai. The lower half is an invitation to a concert by tokiwazu/shamisen player Kishizawa Koshikibu and students. Rare. Very good impression, blind printing, colours still good, somewhat rubbed and soiled (especially in invitation section), few tiny worm holes, five vertical folds.
39 x 53 cm

Provenance

Collection Dr. Kurt Meissner (1885-1976), and thence by descent

Exhibitions

A similar combination of asurimono by Hokusai and invitation to an event is housed in the British Museum, accession no. 1907,0531,0.576