Japanese Works of Art - 23rd November 2021

Lot 1150

KAMISAKA SEKKA (1866-1942)

Estimate £500 - £1,000 | Hammer £950

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Description

KAMISAKA SEKKA (1866-1942)

MEIJI ERA, C.1910

Two Japanese woodblock prints, one entitled Tomoe no Yuki (Whirling Snow) from the album Momoyogusa (A World of Things) depicting a traveller caught in a snow storm; the other depicting a makimono, the handscroll partly open to reveal two beauties wearing Heian-style garments, with a red seal mark, both prints framed and glazed, 28cm x 43cm max. (2)

Provenance: from the Milne Henderson collection of Japanese art.

See the British Museum, access. no.1991,1112,0.161.1 for another example of the snow print.