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Auction archive: Lot number 640

Utagawa Kunisada I (1786-1865) Utagawa Kunisada II (1823-1...

Estimate
US$6,000 - US$7,000
Price realised:
US$22,500
Auction archive: Lot number 640

Utagawa Kunisada I (1786-1865) Utagawa Kunisada II (1823-1...

Estimate
US$6,000 - US$7,000
Price realised:
US$22,500
Beschreibung:

Utagawa Kunisada I (1786-1865) Utagawa Kunisada II (1823-1880)
Three albums of actor portraits ( yakusha mitate-e )
Utagawa Kunisada I (1786-1865) Utagawa Kunisada II (1823-1880) Three albums of actor portraits ( yakusha mitate-e ) The first two a total of one-hundred nineteen variously titled woodcuts from the series Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi (The fifty-three stations of the Tokaido) [" Yakusha Tokaido ," "Actor Tokaido"] plus title pages, variously published, signed Toyokuni ga (Kunisada I), in paper covers with title slips inscribed in ink, The third a total of seventy-one variously titled woodcuts from the series Kiso rokujukyu eki (The sixty-nine stations of the Kiso [Highway]), signed Toyokuni ga (Kunisada, signing as Toyokuni III), along with three additional prints from the series Hakken den (The legend of the eight dog warriors), signed Kunisada ga (Kunisada II), in brocade covers oban tate-e ; the first and second albums 14¼ x 10in. (36.2 x 25.4cm.) and the third 14¼ x 10¼in. (36.2 x 25.7cm.) (3)

Auction archive: Lot number 640
Auction:
Datum:
15 Sep 2010
Auction house:
Christie's
15 September 2010, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

Utagawa Kunisada I (1786-1865) Utagawa Kunisada II (1823-1880)
Three albums of actor portraits ( yakusha mitate-e )
Utagawa Kunisada I (1786-1865) Utagawa Kunisada II (1823-1880) Three albums of actor portraits ( yakusha mitate-e ) The first two a total of one-hundred nineteen variously titled woodcuts from the series Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi (The fifty-three stations of the Tokaido) [" Yakusha Tokaido ," "Actor Tokaido"] plus title pages, variously published, signed Toyokuni ga (Kunisada I), in paper covers with title slips inscribed in ink, The third a total of seventy-one variously titled woodcuts from the series Kiso rokujukyu eki (The sixty-nine stations of the Kiso [Highway]), signed Toyokuni ga (Kunisada, signing as Toyokuni III), along with three additional prints from the series Hakken den (The legend of the eight dog warriors), signed Kunisada ga (Kunisada II), in brocade covers oban tate-e ; the first and second albums 14¼ x 10in. (36.2 x 25.4cm.) and the third 14¼ x 10¼in. (36.2 x 25.7cm.) (3)

Auction archive: Lot number 640
Auction:
Datum:
15 Sep 2010
Auction house:
Christie's
15 September 2010, New York, Rockefeller Center
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