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First Make-up of the Year (Hatsu-geshô)


初化粧
Dômoto Inshô (Japanese, 1891–1975)
Publisher: Baba Nobuhiko (Japanese)
Japanese
Shôwa era
1935 (Shôwa 10), January

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions 51. x 36.6 cm (20 1/16 x 14 7/16 in.)
Credit Line Museum purchase with funds donated by Mrs. Charles Gaston Smith's Group
Accession Number35.1853
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné The Kansai View (Amsterdam, Nihon no hanga exh. cat. 9, 2013), fig. 28; Hamanaka and Newland, The Female Image (2000), pl. 234; Smith, Modern Japanese Prints (1994), pl. 57; Hizô ukiyo-e taikan: Mura (Muller coll.; 1990), pl. 141
DescriptionEdition: 87/250

This impression lacks the inscriptions in the margins.
Signed Inshô (in block)
印象
Marks Artist's seal: Inshô
ProvenanceBy 1935, Mrs. Wilmot R. Evans, Boston; 1935, sold by Mrs. Evans to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 5, 1935)