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Painting the Eyebrows


眉墨
Itô Shinsui (Japanese, 1898–1972)
Publisher: Watanabe Shôzaburô (Japanese)
Japanese
Shôwa era
1928 (Shôwa 3), January

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 28 x 39 cm (11 x 15 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Robert Treat Paine, Jr.
Accession Number50.425
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Brown et al., Fresh Impressions (2013), cat. 23; Hockley, ed., Women of Shin Hanga (2013), #40; Hamanaka and Newland, The Female Image (2000), pl. 52; Hizô ukiyo-e taikan: Mura (Muller coll.; 1990), pl. 122; Toledo cat. 1930, no. 21
Signed Shinsui ga (in block)
深水画
Marks Artist's seal
ProvenanceBy 1950, Robert Treat Paine, Jr. (b. 1900 - d. 1965), Cambridge, MA; 1950, gift of Robert Treat Paine, Jr. to the MFA. (Accession date: March 9, 1950)