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新美人十二姿 初春の浴
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
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
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
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
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)