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Toenails (Tsume), from the series Second Series of Modern Beauties (Gendai bijin shû dai-nishû)


現代美人集第二輯 爪
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 Vertical ôban; 44 x 29 cm (17 5/16 x 11 7/16 in.)
Credit Line Justine F. Kershaw Fund
Accession Number66.413
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hockley, ed., Women of Shin Hanga (2013), #43; Hamanaka and Newland, The Female Image (2000), pl. 79
Signed Shinsui ga (in block)
深水画
Marks Artist's seal: Shinsui
ProvenanceBy 1966, Mr. and Mrs. Albert J. Kirkpatrick, New York; 1966, sold by Mr. and Mrs. Kirkpatrick to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 21, 1966)