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「中村吉右衛門像」
Portrait of Kabuki Actor Nakamura Kichiemon
「中村吉右衛門像」
Sekino Jun'ichirô (Japanese, 1914–1988)
Japanese
Shôwa era
1947 (Shôwa 22)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Height x width: 57.7 × 47.7 cm (22 11/16 × 18 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Robert Treat Paine, Jr. through Mrs. Robert Treat Paine, Jr.
Accession Number65.1130
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Statler, ed. Endo, Yomigaetta geijutsu (2009), pl. 38; Sekino Jun'ichirô hanga sakuhin shû (1997), list #75, photo p. 140; MFAB Bulletin #334 (1965), pp. 206-7; Statler, Modern J. Prints (1956), pl. 38
DescriptionWith an image in the background of actor Segawa Tomisaburo II as Yadogiri, after a woodblock print by Sharaku, but reversed; see 11.14682, 21.5826.
THis impression has the title written in ink, together with the artist's signature, at the upper left.
THis impression has the title written in ink, together with the artist's signature, at the upper left.
Signed
Jun'ichirô (in Japanese, in ink at upper left); Zyun Sekino (in romanization, in pencil at upper left)
Marks
Artist's seal: Sekino
ProvenanceBy 1965, Robert Treat Paine, Jr. (b. 1900 - d. 1965), Cambridge, MA: 1965, by inheritance to his wife, Barbara Birkhoff Paine (b. 1909 - d. 1995), Cambridge, MA; 1965, gift of Mrs. Paine to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 22, 1965)
CopyrightReproduced with permission.