Lot 898: Ishikawa Toyonobu (1711-1785)

Ishikawa Toyonobu (1711-1785)
Slipping out of a Robe at the Bath
Woodcut printed in red and green (benizuri-e) of a woman slipping off her light robe before she enters the bath, a willow tree visible through the open shoji window above, signed Ishikawa Toyonobu hitsu, mark of publisher Urokogataya--good impression, slightly faded, a few stains and minute holes, trimmed into poem left
hosoban tate-e: 10 5/8 x 5 3/8in. (27 x 13.7cm.)

Musée des Art Décoratifs, Paris, "Estampes Japonaises," February 1909

"Pari Beberu korekushon ukiyoe meisaku 300 senten 300 Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e Prints from the Vever Collection," shown at the following venues:
Keio Department Store, Tokyo, 1975.1.4-15
Hanshin Department Store, Osaka, 1975.2.6-18
Sogo Department Store, Hiroshima, 1975.4.21-26

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1999

Vignier and Inada, Estampes Japonaises Primitives...Exposées au Museé des Art Décoratifs en Fevrier 1909, exh. cat. (Paris: Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 1909; reprint Geneva: Minkoff, 1973), no. 232, pl. LII (collection Charles Haviland).

Estampes Japonaises, Albums illustrés des Maîtres de l'Ukiyoye, Peintures [collection Charles Haviland], Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 4-6 June 1923, no. 23.

Pari Beberu korekushon ukiyoe meisaku 300 senten 300 Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e Prints from the Vever Collection, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Nihon Keizai shinbunsha, 1975), no. 27.

Jack Hillier, Japanese Prints and Drawings from the Vever Collection, vol. 1 (London and New York: Philip Wilson Publishers, Rizzoli International and Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1976), no. 74.

Jack Hillier, Suzuki Juzo and Adachi Toyohisa, Ukiyoe Beberu korekushon (Ukiyo-e from the Vever Collection) (Tokyo: Nihon Keizai shinbunsha, 1976), no. 83.

Sotheby's, London, Highly Important Japanese Prints from the Henri Vever Collection: Final Part, 30 October 1997, lot 9.

Charles Haviland (1839-1921), Limoges
Henri Vever (1854-1943), Paris (red seal lower left)

Property from the Collection of Max Palevsky