Mosquito Net (Kaya), from the series First Series of Modern Beauties (Gendai bijin dai-isshû)

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Mosquito Net (Kaya), from the series First Series of Modern Beauties (Gendai bijin dai-isshû)

現代美人集第一輯　蚊帳

Itô Shinsui (Japanese, 1898–1972)
Publisher: Watanabe Shôzaburô (Japanese)

Japanese

Shôwa era

1929 (Shôwa 4), May

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 42.4 x 27.7 cm (16 11/16 x 10 7/8 in.)

Credit Line Gift of L. Aaron Lebowich

Accession Number50.329

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Brown et al., Fresh Impressions (2013), cat. 25; Hamanaka and Newland, The Female Image (2000), pl. 55; Ôta Mus., Meiji-Taishô bijin hanga ten (1993), #79

DescriptionEdition: 15/250.

Signed Shinsui ga (in block)
深水画

Marks Artist's seal: Shinsui

Provenance1950, gift of Louis Aaron Lebowich (b. 1880), Boston, to the MFA. (Accession date: March 9, 1950)