Torii Kotondo (鳥居言人) (artist 1900 – 1976)

Makeup at Mirror

Print

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Date:1930
Dimensions:11.875 in x 18.125 in (Overall dimensions) Medium:Japanese woodblock print
Inscription:Signed: Kotondo ga (言人画)
Date: Showa gonen natsu
昭和五年夏
Artist's seal: Shi
Publisher: Kawaguchi-Sakai
(seal in oval in lower left)
Links Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco
Minneapolis Museum of Art
Walters Museum of Art
National Museum of Asian Art Description:On the back of is print is a hand-numbered limited edition seal which reads: Sanbyaku gojū mai kagiri zeppan, gojū ban(?). Also it is stamped: "MADE IN JAPAN".

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Illustrated in:

1) 鳥居言人 Torii Kotondo, Gallery Beniya, 1995, p. 25, no. 16.

2) in color in The New Wave: Twentieth-century Japanese prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection, Bamboo Publishing, Ltd. and Hotei Publishing, 1993, number 267, page 201.

3) Ukiyo-e to Shin hanga: The Art of Japanese Woodblock Prints, Mallard Press, 1990, p. 219.

4) In color in The Female Image: 20th century prints of Japanese beauties, Abe Publisher, 2000, #174-1, p. 130.

5) In color in Seven Masters: 20th-Century Japanese Woodblock Prints from The Wells Collection, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2015, p. 197.
Related entities modern prints (shin hanga - 新版画) (genre)
Sakai Kawaguchi (酒井川口) (publisher)

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