An Udagawa Kazuo cast bronze figure of a young mother with her child, seated on a wooden bench. Tokyo. Around 1900-1910. - image-1
An Udagawa Kazuo cast bronze figure of a young mother with her child, seated on a wooden bench. Tokyo. Around 1900-1910. - image-2
An Udagawa Kazuo cast bronze figure of a young mother with her child, seated on a wooden bench. Tokyo. Around 1900-1910. - image-3
An Udagawa Kazuo cast bronze figure of a young mother with her child, seated on a wooden bench. Tokyo. Around 1900-1910. - image-4
An Udagawa Kazuo cast bronze figure of a young mother with her child, seated on a wooden bench. Tokyo. Around 1900-1910. - image-1An Udagawa Kazuo cast bronze figure of a young mother with her child, seated on a wooden bench. Tokyo. Around 1900-1910. - image-2An Udagawa Kazuo cast bronze figure of a young mother with her child, seated on a wooden bench. Tokyo. Around 1900-1910. - image-3An Udagawa Kazuo cast bronze figure of a young mother with her child, seated on a wooden bench. Tokyo. Around 1900-1910. - image-4

Lot 384 Dα

An Udagawa Kazuo cast bronze figure of a young mother with her child, seated on a wooden bench. Tokyo. Around 1900-1910.

Auction 1226 - overview Cologne
21.06.2023, 10:30 - Asian Art
Estimate: 5.000 € - 6.000 €
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An Udagawa Kazuo cast bronze figure of a young mother with her child, seated on a wooden bench. Tokyo. Around 1900-1910.

A young peasant woman seated on a wooden bench, holding an infant in her arms, who places his hands on the mother's bare chest. With her right hand, the young woman is poking (chop sticks lost) at a bentobako with rice and vegetable, whose flat lid is placed next to the box and whose wrapping cloth (furoshiki) hangs over the edge of the bench. Signed Nihon Tôkyô Udagawa sei. The wooden bench with legs of thick branches (modern replacement).
Height 58 cm

Udagawa Kazuo from Tokyo exhibited at international exhibitions between 1900 and 1910. This figure model was shown at the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition in 1904 and at the Japan-British Exhibition in London in 1910. The model was also made in the combination of wood and ivory (Nihon no zôge bijutsu, Shoto Museum, Tokyo 1996, p. 105). The same model also exists in plaster by Murata Kichigorô, exhibited at the 5th National Industrial Exhibition in 1903.

Provenance

Old private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia acquired at Lempertz, Cologne, 5./6.12.2003, lot 832, thence by descent

Literature

Cf. almost identical pieces: J. Harada, Japanese Art and Artists of To-Day. - V. Metal Work, in: Studio, 1919, p. 102; Japan and Europe 1546-1929, exhibition catalogue, Berlin 1993, fig. 20/1, p. 588; J. Earl, Splendors of Imperial Japan, Arts of the Meiji Period from the Khalili Collection, London 2002, p. 376, cat. no. 269. Another piece was sold at Lempertz 11/12.6.2010, lot 728