Lot no. 153
Torii Kotondo (Japan, 1900-1976)
Print, dai oban tate-e, Yugaeri (湯がえ里), Leaving the bath. Signed Kotondo ga and artist's stamp. Publisher Ikeda. Dated Showa 8 (1933). On the reverse, numbered 60/100. (Small pinholes).
Size: 47.9 x 29.1 cm
The young woman depicted, for whom the artist's wife posed, is shown passing through the noren, coming out of the baths. She is holding a basket containing her toiletries. Her skin is still pink from the heat of the bath.
ATTACHED is a dai oban tate-e, a print of the outlines of the same print.
Reference:
This print reproduced in: Uhlenbeck, Dwinger, Ouweleen, Shin hanga: Les Estampes Modernes du Japon 1900-1960, Editions Hazan (2022), p. 114.
A similar print with blue rather than brown noren is in the Rijksmuseum, no. RP-P-1996-124.
See original version (French) Auto-translation. Refer to original language for legal validity.
Pictures credits: Contact organization
Asian Art
About the sale06/12/2025
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René Scholten's personal collection, The Netherlands (Part II) - Early Japanese prints & Shin-Hanga
75007 Paris - France
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