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PROPERTY FROM THE SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS
(LOTS 24-83)
83 TOTOYA HOKKEI (1780-1850)
Tiger looking at the moon
Signed Hokkei and sealed
Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
46√ x 19¬ in. (119.1 x 49.8 cm.)
$15,000-20,000
PROVENANCE:
Raymond A. Bidwell (1876-1954), Springfield,
Massachusetts
EXHIBITED:
“Ukiyo-e from The Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield,
MA”, exh. cat. p. 133, no. 3, exhibited at the following
venues:
Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo, 4 June-3 July, 1994
Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya City, Hyogo
Prefecture, 16 July-21 August, 1994
Yokkaichi Municipal Museum, Mie Prefecture, 1 September-4
October, 1994
LITERATURE:
Kobayashi, Tadashi. Nikuhitsu ukiyoe taikan. 6, Azabu
bijutsu kogeikan (Ukiyo-e Paintings in Japanese
Collections Vol.6: Azabu Museum of Art and Artifact)
(Japan: Kodansha Ltd., 1995), p. 231.
