A SMALL COLLECTION OF SEVEN JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS

A SMALL COLLECTION OF SEVEN JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS, SURIMONO

EDO AND MEIJI PERIODS

Variously including: aubergines in a basket by Totoya Hokkei; a wine cup and kettle by Yashima Gakutei; a fox about to catch a beauty with a rope by Kitagawa Utamaro I; a courtesan with a drum by Katsushika Hokuun; and the last three by Katsushika Hokusai and depicting a courtesan with a monkey, a flowering branch of prunus before a red sun, and a crow perched on a sword, all mounted in modern frames and glazed, the frames 28cm x 25cm each. (7)

Provenance: from the collection of Ernst Michel (d.1949), an architect working in Germany in the first half of the 20th c. and involved with Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus Movement.