Utagawa Toyokuni (Japanese, 1769-1825). Kabuki Actor Sawamura Sojuro III, from the series Portraits of Kabuki Actors o...

Description

Utagawa Toyokuni (Japanese, 1769-1825)
Kabuki Actor Sawamura Sojuro III, from the series Portraits of Kabuki Actors on Stage (Yakusha butai no sugata-e), circa 1794
Woodblock print
15-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches (39.4 x 24.1 cm) (sheet, oban)
Signed: Toyokuni ga
With the censor seal: Kiwame
Published by Izumiya Ichibei, with the publisher's seal

PROVENANCE:
Henri Vever (1854-1943), Paris (Lugt 2491bis);
His posthumous sale: Sotheby's, London, October 30, 1997, lot 133.

Additional impressions of this work can be found in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art.



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