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A Bath in Early Summer (Shoka no yoku), from the series Twelve New Figures of Beauties (Shin bijin jûni sugata)


新美人十二姿 初春の浴
Itô Shinsui (Japanese, 1898–1972)
Publisher: Watanabe Shōzaburō (Japanese)
Japanese
Taishô era
1922 (Taishô 11), spring

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 43.5 x 26.6 cm (17 1/8 x 10 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Museum purchase with funds donated by Mrs. Charles Gaston Smith's Group
Accession Number35.1862
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Brown et al., Fresh Impressions (2013), cat. 28; Hamanaka & Newland, The Female Image (2000), pl. 37; Chiba Mus., Nihon no hanga III (2001), #2-1; Ôta Mus., Meiji-Taishô bijin hanga ten (1993), #63; Smith, The J. Print since 1900 (1983), #32, photo p. 18
DescriptionEdition: 174/200
Signed Shinsui saku (in block)
深水作
Marks Artist's seal: Itô
ProvenanceBy 1935, Mrs. Wilmot R. Evans, Boston; 1935, sold by Mrs. Evans to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 5, 1935)