Lot Closed
November 18, 03:07 PM GMT
Estimate
2,500 - 3,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Kawase Hasui (1883-1957)
Evening at Tago Bay (Tago no ura no yube)
Showa period, 20th century
woodblock print, from the series Selected Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu), signed Hasui, sealed Kawase, titled as above, publisher's mark (Hotei 'D', circa 1929-1942) to bottom right margin Hanken shoyu Watanabe Shozaburo [copyright reserved, Watanabe Shozaburo], dated Showa jugonen (1940)
Vertical oban: 39.5 x 27 cm., 15½ x 10½ in.
We are in Tago Bay, at the foot of Mount Fuji. Four tall pine trees frame the view of the mountain. A farmer leads a horse and car🐈t laden with bays of hay; the sunset tints the snow-capped mountain pink, as well as bathes the foreground in evening light.
🌜For another impression in the collection of the Museum of Fine Ar🅺ts, Boston, accession number 50.2889, go to:
For a further example in the col♑lection of the Harvard Art Museums, object number 1♓978.264, go to: