A SMALL COLLECTION OF SEVEN JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS

A SMALL COLLECTION OF SEVEN JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS, SURIMONO

EDO AND MEIJI PERIOD, 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY

Variously including: aubergines in a basket by Totoya Hokkei (1780-1850); a wine cup and kettle by Yashima Gakutei (1786-1868); a fox about to catch a beauty with a rope by Kitagawa Utamaro I (1753-1806); a courtesan with a drum by Katsushika Hokuun (1804-44); and the last three by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) and depicting a courtesan with a monkey, a flowering branch of prunus before a red sun, and a crow perched on a sword, all mounted in modern frames and glazed, 28cm x 25cm each. (7)

Provenance: from the collection of Ernst Michel (d.1949), an architect working in Germany in the first half of the 20th c. and involved with Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus Movement.