LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Hanging scroll; ink, color, silver and gold on silk

Measurements:

58.66 in. (149.00 cm.) (height) by 27.56 in. (70.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

Signed Seisei Kyosai ga, sealed Kyosai and with a demon figure

Exhibited:

Ukiyo-e Ota Memorial Museum of Art, Tokyo, "Seitan hyakugojusshunen kinen: Kawanabe Kyosai ten" (150th anniversary of his birth: Kawanabe Kyosai exhibition), 1981.11.1--24. "Sakikaoru Edo no joseibi: Nikuhitsu ukiyoe meisaku ten" (The blooming and fragrant beauty of Edo women: Exhibition of masterpieces of ukiyo-e paintings), shown at the following venues:. Matsuzakaya Department Store, Nagoya, 1984.1.4--11. Shinbashi Sogo Department Store, Osaka, 1984.1.27--2.8. Nihonbashi Tokyu Department Store, Tokyo, 1984.2.17--29. Shijo Takashimaya Department Store, Kyoto, 1984.4.19--5.1. The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, "Botsugo hyakunen kinen: Kawanabe Kyosai ten" (100th anniversary of his death: Kawanabe Kyosai exhibition), 1989.11.18--12.24.

Literature:

Ukiyo-e Ota Memorial Museum of Art, ed., Seitan hyakugojusshunen kinen: Kawanabe Kyosai ten (150th anniversary of his birth: Kawanabe Kyosai exhibition) (Tokyo: Ukiyo-e Ota Memorial Museum of Art, 1981), pl. 4. Genshoku ukiyoe daihyakkajiten henshu iinkai, ed., Sakuhin 4 Hiroshige--Kiyochika (Works 4 Hiroshige--Kiyochika), vol. 9 of Genshoku ukiyoe daihyakkajiten (Encyclopedia of ukiyo-e in full color) (Tokyo: Taishukan shoten, 1981), pl. 208. Narazaki Muneshige, ed., Meisakusen (Selection of masterpieces), vol. 10 of Nikuhitsu ukiyoe (Ukiyo-e paintings) (Tokyo: Shueisha, 1983), pl. 36. Asahi Shinbunsha, ed., Sakikaoru Edo no joseibi: Nikuhitsu ukiyoe meisaku ten (The blooming and fragrant beauty of Edo women: Exhibition of masterpieces of ukiyo-e paintings) (Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1984), pl. 60. Mainichi Gurafu (Mainichi Graphic) (Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha) (July--August, 1984): front cover. Nakau Ei, ed., Ukiyoe hyakunin hyakushu (Ukiyo-e--one hundred people, one mind) (Toyo: Sojusha Bijutsu shuppan, 1984), p. 153. The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, ed., Botsugo hyakunen kinen: Kawanabe Kyosai ten (100th anniversary of his death: Kawanabe Kyosai exhibition) (Ibaraki: The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, 1989), pl. 48. Ono Shichizo, Kawanabe Kyosai: Itsuwa to shogai (Kawanabe Kyosai: Life and anecdotes) (Tokyo: Kindai bungeisha, 1994), cover illustration.

Provenance:

Ono Shichizo.