Make-up

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Make-up

化粧

Torii Kotondo (Japanese, 1900–1976)
Publisher: Sakai and Kawaguchi (Japanese)

Japanese

Shôwa era

1929 (Shôwa 4), June

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Dimensions 47 x 30.4 cm (18 1/2 x 11 15/16 in.)

Credit Line Chinese and Japanese Special Fund

Accession Number38.683

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hockley, ed., Women of Shin Hanga (2013), #52; Chiba Mus., Nihon no hanga III (2001), #36; Hamanaka and Newland, The Female Image (2000), pl. 167; Hizô ukiyo-e taikan: Mura (Muller coll.; 1990), pl. 128

Signed Kotondo ga (in block)
言人画

Marks Artist's seal: Kotondo

ProvenanceBy 1938, Yamanaka and Company, Boston; 1938, sold by Yamanaka and Company to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 14, 1938)