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Lot 310 Dα

Katsushika Hokusai - Full moon at Izumizaki

Auction 1226 - overview Cologne
21.06.2023, 10:30 - Asian Art
Estimate: 1.200 € - 1.700 €
Result: 3.024 € (incl. premium)
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Katsushika Hokusai

Full moon at Izumizaki

Ôban, yoko-e. Series: Ryûkyû hakkei. Title: Senki yagetsu. Full moon at Izumizaki. Signed: Saki no Hokusai Iitsu hitsu. Publisher: Moriya Jihei. About 1832. Good impression, colours somewhat faded (red colour almost gone), centre fold, lower right corner damaged, margins trimmed, partially creased and undulating, mounted at upper corners, framed

Provenance

From a South German Estate

Literature

Travis Seifman wrote an interesting article about Hokusai‘s Ryûkyû hakkei in which he details the origins of the series - and other hakkei series -, places it in a time frame and discusses each print in this series. Travis Seifman, Islands of the imagination. Hokusai’s Eight views of Ryûkyû, in: Andon, no. 106) autumn 2018), pp. 26-40