Keisai Eisen (1790–1848)

Serie: "Rejected Geisha from Passions Cooled by Springtime Snow"
Japanischer Farbholzschnitt aus dem Jahre 1824
abuna-e Format: 20.2 x 12.9 cm
Leicht knittrig, hinten Klebebandrest

CHF 350.- / Artikelnummer pri545

Kommentar des MET Museum zu diesem Holzschnitt: One of the most eccentric ukiyo-e artists, Eisen was frequently found drunk in brothels, and in his later years actually became the owner of one himself. His coquette is a far cry from the lovely aristocratic beauty portrayed some three decades earlier by Utamaro. Her angular features, long slanting eyes, half-open pouting lips with a touch of iridescent green, little red ribbon and suggestive crook of a finger betrays her coy and slightly wanton nature.

Japanese original woodblock print, portrait of a geisha by Keisai Eisen in the abuna-e format.
Slightly wrinkled, backside with tape residue.