Posts by Richard Kruml:
Ichiryusai HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
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An original drawing showing a full length study of a woman. Sumi on thin paper. 19.5 x 10.5 in., 50 x 27 cms.
Status: Sold
Ichiryusai HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
Click here to view image full size. An original drawing showing two full length female studies. Sumi on thin paper. 14.5 x 10 in., 36.5 x 25.5 cms. Status: Sold
Ichiryusai HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
Click here to view image full size. An original drawing showing a full length study of a woman surrounded with various vignettes of the same model. Sumi and pentimenti on thin paper. 14.5 x 10.5 in., 37 x 26.5 cms. Status: Sold
Ichiryusai HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
Click here to view image full size. An original drawing showing a seated woman offering sushi on a platter. Sumi and pentimenti on thin paper. 12 x 9 in., 30 x 23 cms. Status: Sold
Kobayashi KIYOCHIKA (1847-1915)
Click here to view image full size. An original giga hand-scroll by Kiyochika, sumi and colour on paper, 504 inches x 10.5 inches. Shows the progress of a horseman on observing a beauty and attendant. Kiyochika, one of the last great ukiyoe artists, studied oil painting under Charles Wirgman, and ukiyoe painting with Kyosai and […]
Ichiryusai HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
Click here to view image full size. A rare complete triptych hanshita-e (original drawing for a print). Presumably never published. A procession at Akasaka (?). Signed Hiroshige ga on first sheet. Status: Sold
Matsumura GOSHUM (1752-1811)
Click here to view image full size. A boy feeding geese. Sumi and light colour on paper, lightly laid onto card. From an album. 27 x 34 cms; 10.6 x 13.4 inches. Good condition. Sealed Goshun no in. Status: Sold
Tsubaki CHINZAN (1801-1954)
Click here to view image full size. Hovering dragonflies. Sumi and colour on paper. 28 x 35.8 cms; 11 x 13.9 inches. Good condition. Unsigned but from a fully signed album. Status: Sold
Kawanabe KYOSAI (1831-1889)
Click here to view image full size. Two fishermen in a punt. Sumi and light colour on paper. 19 x 30 cms; 7.5 x 11.9 inches. Good condition. Unsigned but from a fully signed album. Status: Sold
Suzuki KIITSU (1796-1858)
Click here to view image full size. A fan painting showing a children’s toy. A rotating lantern with moving images. Kiitsu was a pupil of Hoitsu. Sumi and colour on lacquered paper. Good condition for a used fan. Signed Kiitsu ga. Status: Sold
Hashiguchi GOYO (1880-1921)
Click here to view image full size. An original drawing of a sleeping cat. The original hanshita-e for a published print from Ten Sketches, volume two, published 1918-20. Illustrated in Hashiguchi Goyo, 130 Years Birth. Memorial Exhibition catalogue, Chiba City Museum, Iwakiri Shinichiro, Tokyo Shinibun, 2011. On thin Japanese paper, 11 x 15.5 in; 28 […]
Katsushika HOKUSAI (1760-1849)
Click here to view image full size. An original sumi drawing of a seated bijin writing on a handscroll. From a series of such studies showing women in various attitudes, smoking; playing musical instruments; adjusting hair, etc. The design cut out and mounted onto a larger sheet of Japanese paper, 10.5 x 8 inches. Status: […]
Utagawa HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
Click here to view image full size. An important original drawing by Hiroshige being an hanshita-e (preparatory sketch) for an unpublished series Toto meisho gojusan tsugi, “Fifty-Three Views of Edo.” Shows Nihonbashi with a daimyo’s cortege crossing. Warehouses in the background and a distant Fuji. Probably executed c. early 1850s. Sumi on thin paper, […]
Utagawa HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
Click here to view image full size. An important original drawing by Hiroshige being an hanshita-e (preparatory sketch) for an unpublished series Toto Fujimi junigatsu, “Mount Fuji Viewed from Edo in the Twelve Months.” This is February showing the Inari Bridge and the Minato Temple; boats in the foreground and Fuji in the distance. […]
Torii KIYOMASU (FL. c. 1696-1720)
Click here to view image full size. An overlarge oban, 19.5 x 12.25 in; 49.5 x 31 cms. Coloured by hand with tan and mustard yellow. Shows the emporium of Daikokuten, the God of wealth and one of the Seven Lucky Gods (Shichifukujin). He is shown at the top seated in front of a pair […]
Attributed to Nishikawa SUKENOBU (1671-1750)
Click here to view image full size. A sumizuri-e print, probably from a set of 12 issued in album form, showing two courtesans, one holding a love letter which she is either delivering or collecting. Its difficult to intuit what is happening. Sukenobu was unusual in spending his working life in Kyoto. Very good impression. […]
Utagawa HIROSHIGE II (1826-1869)
Click here to view image full size. An original drawing, sumi on paper, 9 x 12 in; 23 x 30.5 cms. Neko ni kamibukuro, “cat in a paper bag.” A proverb: “to back away from something.” Slight foxing, otherwise good condition. Sealed Ichiryusai. Status: Sold
Utagawa KUNITSUNA (1805-1868)
Click here to view image full size. A preliminary brush drawing for a print laid onto Japanese paper showing a full length portrait of the sumo wrestler Fujibi Mitsuemon. Originally a drawing of another wrestler was made and altered with pentimenti to show Mitsuemon. 13.25 x 9.5 in; 33.6 x 24.2 cms. Signed Kunitsuna […]
Katsushika HOKUSAI (1760-1849)
Click here to view image full size. A small original drawing, 3.25 x 4.25 in; 0.825 x 1.05 cms. Sumi on paper laid onto card showing a vendor or waiter offering food. Very much in the style of the “Day” and “Night” series of drawings in the MFA, Boston, c 1815. Provenance: Ex collection Catherine […]
Utagawa HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
Click here to view image full size. An original oban (14 x 9.5 in; 35.5 x 24 cms) hanshita-e drawing, sumi on thin paper, for an unpublished set Rokkasen kiri etoki, “Picture Storytelling of Climatic Scenes of the Six Immortal Poets.” In this case the poet Fun’ya no Yasuhide and depicts his most famous poem, […]
Utagawa KUNIYOSHI (1797-1861)
Click here to view image full size. An original oban (10.5 x 15 in; 26.75 x 38 cms) preparatory drawing, sumi on thin paper, for an unpublished set. Shows a warrior and attendants, one of whom is being handed a parcel of scrolls (Gohonzon ?) by a priest in a nearby hut. Possibly intended for […]
Hashiguchi GOYO (1880-1921)
Click here to view image full size. An original pencil drawing on thick paper, 13.5 x 13.75 in; 34.25 x 35 cms, of a nude. Quite probably either Kodaira Tomi or Nakatani Tsuru. Both were his muse and had similar features. On the reverse is another drawing of a nude with the face unfinished. Two […]
Tsukioka YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)
Click here to view image full size. An original preparatory drawing (hanshita-e) for an unpublished set. Shows a busy street scene with a doctor’s surgery on the right. Probably c early 1870s. Signed on a painter’s palette Ikkaisai Yoshitoshi fude. Two small areas of pentimenti. Sumi on thin Japanese paper, image size 13.5 x 9.25 […]
Taiso YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)
Click here to view image full size. An original drawing in vigorous sumi and red ink showing fighting samurai. Possibly a preparatory sketch for an illustrated book. Lightly laid at edges onto Japanese paper, otherwise good condition. 6.5 x 10.75 in; 16.5 x 27.3 cms. Status: Sold
Taiso YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)
Click here to view image full size. An original drawing in vigorous red ink showing fighting samurai. Possibly a preparatory sketch for an illustrated book. Lightly laid at edges onto Japanese paper, otherwise good condition. 7 x 10.5 in; 17.8 x 26.6 cms. Status: Sold
Katsushika HOKUSAI (1760-1849)
Click here to view image full size. An important large brush drawing in red ink showing a full length figure wielding a stave at a cowering adversary. The standing figure has no sword or armour but is obviously a chivalrous man of great probity. The leaning attitude of the upright figure is typical of Hokusai […]
Utagawa KUNITERU (Fl. mid-19th c.)
Click here to view image full size. An original hanshita-e (preparatory drawing) for a triptych showing the ground floor interior of a brothel in the Yoshiwara with courtesans and their assistants. These first drafts by the artist themselves survive because a more detailed drawing was needed by the blockcutter, and this was normally given to […]
Utagawa KUNIYOSHI (1797-1861)
Click here to view image full size. An original sumi drawing showing the two gods of good luck, Ebisu and Daikoku, fishing from a boat. A variety of sea creatures can be seen in the water. Ebisu’s fishing line has caught an octopus which has landed on Daikoku’s head. 12 x 9.25 in; 30.5 x […]
Natori SHUNSEN (1886-1960)
Click here to view image full size. An original watercolour on cartridge paper of the actor Onoe Kikugoro VI as Tomomori. Shunsen is famous for his print series of actors published by Watanabe from 1916 until 1954. 39.2 x 28.5 cms; 15.5 x 11.25 inches. Signed and sealed Shunsen. Minor foxing, otherwise good condition. Status: […]
Utagawa KUNISADA (1786-1865)
Click here to view image full size. A fine original shunga drawing showing a couple copulating. Probably a preliminary design for an obon illustrated book. Sumi on thin Japanese paper, 7.5 x 10.5 in, 19 x 26.5 cms. A nice example unlike the many poor unattributed examples available. Status: Sold
Utagawa KUNISADA (1786-1865)
Click here to view image full size. An original Kunisada shunga drawing showing a couple having sexual congress. Most likely a preliminary design for a koban print. Sumi on thin Japanese paper lightly attached at edges to an album leaf, 5.25 x 7.25 in, 13.5 x 18.5 cms. Probably intended to be printed four-to-a-sheet. A […]
Utagawa KUNISADA (1786-1865)
Click here to view image full size. An original Kunisada shunga drawing showing an old man ravishing a young woman. Most likely a preliminary design for a koban print. Sumi on thin Japanese paper lightly attached at edges to an album leaf, 5.25 x 7.25 in, 13.5 x 18.5 cms. Probably intended to be printed […]
Utagawa KUNISADA (1786-1865)
Click here to view image full size. An original Kunisada shunga drawing showing an old man ravishing a young woman. Most likely a preliminary design for a koban print. Sumi on thin Japanese paper lightly attached at edges to an album leaf, 5.25 x 7.25 in, 13.5 x 18.5 cms. Probably intended to be printed […]
Utagawa KUNISADA (1786-1865)
Click here to view image full size. An original Kunisada shunga drawing showing an old man ravishing a young woman. Most likely a preliminary design for a koban print. Sumi on thin Japanese paper lightly attached at edges to an album leaf, 5.25 x 7.25 in, 13.5 x 18.5 cms. Probably intended to be printed […]
Katsushika HOKUSAI (1760-1849)
Click here to view image full size. A sheet of original studies, sumi on thin paper, 10.5 x 15 in; 26.6 x 38 cms. Of particular interest and importance is the self-portrait in the upper right, This is another version of the famous self-portrait at the age of 83 (1842) sent to his publisher. Illustrated […]
Katsushika HOKUSAI (1760-1849)
Click here to view image full size. A sheet of original sumi drawings laid onto Japanese paper, 14 x 8 in; 35.5 x 20.1 cms.: Four being preliminary designs for the book: Ehon teikin orai, “Communication of Home Precepts” published in three volumes by Eijudo in 1828 (second and third vols n.d.). Together with a […]
Katsushika HOKUSAI (1760-1849)
Click here to view image full size. A sheet of original sumi drawings laid onto Japanese paper, 13 x 8 in; 33 x 20.1 cms.: Four being preliminary designs for the book: Ehon teikin orai, “Communication of Home Precepts” published in three volumes by Eijudo in 1828 (second and third vols n.d.). Together with a […]
Shibata ZESHIN (1807-1891)
Click here to view image full size. A fine original drawing in sumi and colour for the series Hana kurabe, “A Comparison of Flowers” published by Shugyokudo between c 1875 – 1890. The set of 120 prints was issued in groups of 12 enclosed in paper wrappers. This design shows a group of what are […]
Tsukioka YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)
Click here to view image full size. An original oban drawing by Yoshitoshi (an hanshita-e). A design for an unpublished set, probably showing an episode in the Satsuma Rebellion where a group of disenfranchised samurai rebelled. Probably executed c. 1877. Fine condition. One area of pentimenti. Status: Sold
Katsushika HOKUSAI (1760-1849)
Click here to view image full size. An original sumi drawing on thin paper, 9 x 13.25 in; 22.9 x 33.6 cms, showing a reclining warrior, his sword resting on his shoulder. Provenance: Ex Hayashi collection, seal bottom left corner. Exhibited and sold at an exhibition: Hokusai, Prints, Paintings, Drawings and Illustrated Books held at […]