Itō Shinsui 伊東深水: Early Spring (Sold)

Artist: Itō Shinsui 伊東深水
Title: Early Spring
Date: 1931

A fashionable woman with a fur stole and knit hat gazes frankly at the viewer. A “modern girl” (moga), she seems independent and worldly, and her hair is cut in short, bobbed curls. From the series “Showa Bijin”, published as a newspaper insert in 1931.

Condition: Very good impression, color and condition. horizontal center fold, as usual, and some creasing.
Dimensions: 38.2 x 26.2 cm
Publisher: Yomiuri Newspaper? Jiji Newspaper?
Literature: Ito Shinsui: All the Woodblock Prints, 1992, pl. 141. See the Met Museum Online and National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Seal: Shinsui
Signature: Shinsui ga

SKU: SNC001S