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.
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