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Lot 262 Dα

Utagawa Kunisada - The courtesan Hanaōgi

Auction 1235 - overview Cologne
08.12.2023, 11:30 - India/Southeast Asia, Tibet/Nepal, China, Korea and Japan
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €

Utagawa Kunisada

The courtesan Hanaōgi

Vertical nagaban. Series: Seirō bijin awase. The courtesan Hanaōgi of the Ōgiya and her kamuro Yoshino or Tatsuta at the Tanabata festival. Bats flying above them. Signed: Kōchōrō Kunisada ga. Publisher: Moriya Jihei. Censor: kiwame. 1826. Very good impression, good colours, age-related damages, in mat

Provenance

Collection Dr. Kurt Meissner (1885-1976), and by descent to the current owner

Literature

Cf. Sebastian Izzard, Kunisada’s World, 1993, No. 71/1