Itō Shinsui: Applying Makeup (Keshô) (Sold)

Artist: Itō Shinsui
Title: Applying Makeup (Keshô)
Series: Twelve Forms of New Beauties (Shin bijin jûni sugata)
Date: 1922, Spring

Rare, pre-earthquake design of the intimate moment of a beauty applying powder to her exposed upper body. The cover image of “Seven Masters”. Numbered 50 of 200 verso.

Condition: Very good impression, color and condition.
Dimensions: 43.5 cm x 26.7 cm
Publisher: Watanabe Shôzaburô
Literature: “Seven Masters’, cover image, plate 60. Tadasu Watanabe, Ito Shinsui: All the Woodblock Prints, 1992, p. 63, pl. . Reigle Newland, Amy, and Hamanaka Shinji, The female image: 20th century prints of Japanese beauties, 2000, p. 54, pl. 33. ??
Seal: Shinsui
Signature: Shinsui saku

SKU: SNI032