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- Sosaku hanga shunsen nigao-e gashu (Creative prints: collected portrait-pictures by Shunsen)
Natori Shunsen
Sosaku hanga shunsen nigao-e gashu (Creative prints: collected portrait-pictures by Shunsen)
Estimate: 8.000 - 10.000 USD
Price realised: 25.850 USD
Price realised: 25.850 USD
Description
Natori Shunsen (1886-1960)
Sosaku hanga shunsen nigao-e gashu
(Creative prints: collected portrait-pictures by Shunsen)
Woodcut, some with mica, a complete set of thirty-six prints in original folder, bust portraits of actors, some with mica ground, each in a folder with the name of the actor and role inscribed in black ink and their number in the set sealed in red and the name of the artist blind-stamped on the lower right side, each signed Shunsen or Shunsen hitsu and sealed in red Shunsen on with various artist's seals in the image, sealed in red Natori on the perimeter of the image on lower right or left, published by Watanabe Shozaburo--very good impressions and color, some margins slightly yellowed, foxing on folders
39.4 x 27.4cm. each approx. (36)
Sosaku hanga shunsen nigao-e gashu
(Creative prints: collected portrait-pictures by Shunsen)
Woodcut, some with mica, a complete set of thirty-six prints in original folder, bust portraits of actors, some with mica ground, each in a folder with the name of the actor and role inscribed in black ink and their number in the set sealed in red and the name of the artist blind-stamped on the lower right side, each signed Shunsen or Shunsen hitsu and sealed in red Shunsen on with various artist's seals in the image, sealed in red Natori on the perimeter of the image on lower right or left, published by Watanabe Shozaburo--very good impressions and color, some margins slightly yellowed, foxing on folders
39.4 x 27.4cm. each approx. (36)
A top price for Natori Shunsen
This artwork by Natori Shunsen achieved an unexpectedly high price at Christies in New York in March 2001. In the Japanese and Korean Art auction, the work Sosaku hanga shunsen nigao-e gashu (Creative prints: collected portrait-pictures by Shunsen) sold for USD 25,850.00 (€ 29,395.04) - well above the upper estimate of USD 10,000.00. This high result makes Sosaku hanga shunsen nigao-e gashu (Creative prints: collected portrait-pictures by Shunsen) the most expensive artwork by Natori Shunsen that we have observed at auctions so far.
Ein Spitzenpreis für Natori Shunsen
Dieses Kunstwerk von Natori Shunsen erzielte im März 2001 bei Christies in New York einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion Japanese and Korean Art wurde die Arbeit Sosaku hanga shunsen nigao-e gashu (Creative prints: collected portrait-pictures by Shunsen) für USD 25.850,00 (€ 29.395,04) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von USD 10.000,00. Dieses hohe Ergebnis macht Sosaku hanga shunsen nigao-e gashu (Creative prints: collected portrait-pictures by Shunsen) zu dem teuersten Kunstwerk von Natori Shunsen, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.