Itō Shinsui: Lip Rouge (Kuchibeni) (Sold)

Artist: Itō Shinsui
Title: Lip Rouge (Kuchibeni)
Series: Twelve Forms of New Beauties
Date: 1922, October

A beauty’s expression is focused as she carefully dips her finger into a jar of rouge, and returns her hand to her lips for its application. There is mica in the collar of her robe, and just a hint of blindprinting on her lower lip. The hair and face have been printed with great subtlety. Watanabe used very high quality paper for this series. With a limited edition seal of 190 out of two hundred, verso.

Condition: Excellent impression, color and condition.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo
Literature: “Seven Masters’, plate 61. Tadasu Watanabe, Ito Shinsui: All the Woodblock Prints, 1992, p. 63, pl. 36. Reigle Newland, Amy, and Hamanaka Shinji, The female image: 20th century prints of Japanese beauties, 2000, p. 54, pl. 33.
Seal: Shinsui
Signature: Shinsui ga

SKU: SNI025