Portrait of My Wife, Teruno

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てるのの肖像

Hiratsuka Un'ichi (Japanese, 1895–1997)

Japanese

Taishô era

1923 (Taishô 12)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Dimensions 30.3 x 21.5 cm (11 15/16 x 8 7/16 in.)

Credit Line Asiatic Curator's Fund

Accession Number55.348

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné AIC, Hiratsuka: Modern Master (2001), pl. 5 (with sig. and title in pencil)

DescriptionJapanese title written in pencil on back of print: Fujin zô ("Portrait of a Woman").

Signed Hiratsuka Un'ichi (in Japanese, in block in right margin)
平塚運一

Marks Artist's seal: Un

Provenance1955, sold by Yamanaka Shoji Co., Ltd., Kyoto to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 12, 1955)