Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 11

The Japanese Tea Ritual - Woodcut print - 1850s

1850s

About the Item

The Japanese tea ritual is a breathtaking ukiyo-e, a original woodblock print on paper, realized at the half of trhe 19th century by the great master, Utagawa Toyokuni II. (attr.). Depicting a kneeling geisha, wearing precious and richly decorated kimono, engaged in the traditional tea ritual in a luxurious indoor with a oiphisticated furniture, this original print has preserved its vivid colors and demontrates still today the mastery of the graphic tecnique of its master. In very good condition, except for very minor agings signs, this plate, mounted under a ivory-colored cardboard, is a masterpiece that has not to be missing in your private collection. The Japanese ideogramm inscriptions in cartuches at the margins reveal the name of the artist. Provenance: Property from a German private collection, assembled between the 1950s and 2000s Utagawa Toyokuni II (1777–1835), also known as Toyoshige, was a designer of ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock prints during the Edo period. Pupil, son-in-law and adopted son of the great master Toyokuni I., he will heritage the Toyokuni name after his teacher's death in 1826 (before he was called Toyoshige (豊重 ) .The signature of Toyokuni II is easiest to distinguish by the chalice-shaped toyo (豊).
  • Attributed to:
    Utagawa Toyokuni II (1777 - 1835)
  • Creation Year:
    1850s
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 14.57 in (37 cm)Width: 10.12 in (25.7 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Framing:
    Framing Options Available
  • Condition:
    Insurance may be requested by customers as additional service, contact us for more information.
  • Gallery Location:
    Roma, IT
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: M-1179271stDibs: LU65037894602
More From This SellerView All
You May Also Like
  • Woodblock Portrait of a Woman
    Located in Soquel, CA
    Bold woodblock print of a woman by J. Duffy (American, 20th Century). The subject is staring directly at the viewer, creating a compelling yet delicate composition. The ink appears t...
    Category

    1950s Modern Portrait Prints

    Materials

    Ink, Woodcut, Paper

  • A Woodcut on Paper, Self-Portrait of Emil Armin
    By Emil Armin
    Located in Chicago, IL
    A woodcut on paper of a self-portrait of artist Emil Armin. Emil Armin was born in Radautz, Austria in 1883. By the age of 10, Armin was orphaned and was raised by his older siblings. He supported himself by working in restaurants and drew in his spare time. In 1905, at the age of 21, Armin immigrated to Chicago. He began studying at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1907, but financial difficulties forced him to start and stop a number of times, finally graduating in 1920. He studied with George Bellows and Randall Davey. Armin was an integral part of Chicago’s 57th Street Art Colony and exhibited in both the more avant-garde Chicago No-Jury Society Shows, as well as the more formal and conventional Chicago Society of Artists Exhibitions, the Chicago Renaissance Society and Art Institute of Chicago (1922-1949) exhibitions. He taught at Hull House...
    Category

    1920s American Modern Portrait Prints

    Materials

    Paper, Woodcut

  • Toilet
    By Eric Gill
    Located in Storrs, CT
    Toilet. (After a drawing by Norval Gray.) 1923. Wood engraving on sycamore, end grain. Physick 256. 4 1/2 x 2 1/2 (sheet 5 5/8 x 4 1/8). Proof printed on sturdy Japanese mulberry lai...
    Category

    Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

    Materials

    Woodcut, Engraving

  • Semicircular Device
    By Eric Gill
    Located in Storrs, CT
    Semicircular Device. 1916. Wood engraving. Physick 77. 1 1/8 x 3 5/8 (sheet 1 13/16 x 4 5/16). Printed on Japanese mulberry laid paper mounted on a backing sheet. Initialed in pencil...
    Category

    Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

    Materials

    Woodcut

  • Leonard Baskin Woodblock Broadside Print Woodcut Vintage Poster in Red and Black
    By Leonard Baskin
    Located in Surfside, FL
    This is an original gallery show poster the Boris Mirsky Gallery, Newbury St. Boston. titled Sculpture Prints Drawings. It is dated 1962. it is in red and black. Leonard Baskin (August 15, 1922 – June 3, 2000) was an American sculptor, illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker, graphic artist, writer and teacher. Baskin was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. While he was a student at Yale University, he founded Gehenna Press, a small private press specializing in fine book production. From 1953 until 1974, he taught printmaking and sculpture at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Subsequently Baskin also taught at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He lived most of his life in the U.S., but spent nine years in Devon at Lurley Manor, Lurley, near Tiverton, close to his friend Ted Hughes, for whom he illustrated Crow. Sylvia Plath dedicated Sculpto to Leonard Baskin in her famous work, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960). The Funeral Contege (1997) bronze, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C. His public commissions include a bas relief for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and a bronze statue of a seated figure, erected in 1994 for the Holocaust Memorial in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His works are owned by many major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Udinotti Museum of Figurative Art and the Vatican Museums. The archive of his work at the Gehenna Press was acquired by the Bodleian Library at Oxford, England, in 2009. The McMaster Museum of Art in Hamilton, Ontario owns over 200 of his works (some religious and biblical), most of which were donated by his brother Rabbi Bernard Baskin. In 1955, he was one of eleven New York artists featured in the opening exhibition at the Terrain Gallery, they showed many great artists, Chaim Koppelman, for many years, headed the gallery's Print Division; printmakers such as Will Barnet, Leonard Baskin, Robert Conover...
    Category

    1960s Modern Portrait Prints

    Materials

    Woodcut

  • Virgin and Child.
    By Eric Gill
    Located in Storrs, CT
    . Wood engraving. Physick catalog 827. 5 3/4 x 2 3/4 (sheet 8 1/16 x 3 7/16). Proof printed on simili-Japan paper with one side deckle edge. Unsigned. Eric Gill was a painter, scu...
    Category

    1930s Modern Figurative Prints

    Materials

    Engraving, Woodcut

Recently Viewed

View All