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Combing the Hair (Kamisuki)


「髪梳き」
Torii Kotondo (Japanese, 1900–1976)
Publisher: Ikeda (Japanese)
Japanese
Shôwa era
1933 (Shôwa 8)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions 46.2 x 30 cm (18 3/16 x 11 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Museum purchase with funds donated by Mrs. Charles Gaston Smith's Group
Accession Number35.1878
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hockley, ed., Women of Shin Hanga (2013), #55; Hamanaka and Newland, The Female Image (2000), pl. 164
DescriptionEdition: 3/100 of 7th set.
Signed Kotondo ga (in block)
言人画
Marks Artist's seal: Tori-i (in pictures)
ProvenanceBy 1935, Mrs. Wilmot R. Evans, Boston; 1935, sold by Mrs. Evans to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 5, 1935)