TWO JAPANESE WOODBLOCK TRIPTYCH PRINTS, UTAGAWA KUNIAKI, KUNIYOSHI, FUSATANA & KUNISADA, EDO PERIOD
A triptych of figures under a cheer-blossom trees by Kuniaki, a copy of the left-hand work seen in at the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts – to the reverse of this triptych are two further prints attached. One first part of triptych from Otsu-e Paintings Coming Alive, a Yakusha-e, or actor picture by Kuniyoshi – copy held by the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Together with pictorial information about measles, or ‘Hashika kokoroe no zue’ by Utagawa Fusatana active 1854-1888, published by Kiya Sojiro in 1862 – a copy of the original held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Together with one other triptych possibly by or in the style of Utagawa Kunisada. Sizes approx. 33cm length x 23.5cm wide. (6 pages)
Provenance: English private collection of Eve Walber (née MacMilan-Scott) former partner in Waterstones, and thence by descent.
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