Newly Washed Hair (Araigami), from the series Second Series of Modern Beauties (Gendai bijin dai-nishû)

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Newly Washed Hair (Araigami), from the series Second Series of Modern Beauties (Gendai bijin dai-nishû)

現代美人集第二輯　洗ひ髪

Itô Shinsui (Japanese, 1898–1972)
Publisher: Watanabe Shôzaburô (Japanese)

Japanese

Shôwa era

1936 (Shôwa 11), August

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Dimensions 42.8 x 28.6 cm (16 7/8 x 11 1/4 in.)

Credit Line Gift of L. Aaron Lebowich

Accession Number49.741

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CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hamanaka and Newland, The Female Image (2000), pl. 77

DescriptionEdition: 74/250

Signed Shinsui ga (in block)
深水画

Marks Artist's seal: Shinsui

Provenance1949, gift of Louis Aaron Lebowich (b. 1880), Boston, to the MFA. (Accession date: September 15, 1949)