Page 54 - September 21 2021 Important Japanese Art Christie's NYC

PROPERTY FROM THE SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS
(LOTS 24-83)

24 KITAO SHIGEMASA (1739-1820) 25 SUZUKI HARUNOBU (1725-1770)

The poet Sugawara Michizane Toi no Tamagawa
(Pounding cloth at Jewel River)
Woodblock print, mizu-e, early 1760s
Vertical hosoban: 12º x 5¡ in. (31.1 x 13.7 cm.) Woodblock print, from an untitled series
This type of prints with no black outlines is called mizu-e, Mutamagawa (Six Jewel Rivers), signed Suzuki
$1,000-2,000 often seen with outlines in faint colors such as red, yellow or Harunobu ga, circa 1766-67
green as the present lot. Early masters such as Torii Kiyomitsu Vertical chuban: 10√ x 8¿ in. (27.6 x 20.6 cm.) PROVENANCE:
(1735-1785), Suzuki Harunobu (1725-1770) and Kitao Shigemasa
PROVENANCE: Raymond A. Bidwell (1876-1954), Springfield,
(1793-1820) are known for working on this type of prints.
Raymond A. Bidwell (1876-1954), Springfield, Another impression of the same print is in the collection of the $4,000-6,000 Massachusetts
Massachusetts Art Institute of Chicaco (1949.32).