Lot 232 Yashima Gakutei (1786-1868) | Two impressions of Carp Ascending a Waterfall | Edo - Meiji period, 19th century

Yashima Gakutei (1786-1868) | Two impressions of Carp Ascending a Waterfall | Edo - Meiji period, 19th century

EUR 20,000

20,000 - 30,000 EUR

未知

The first, good impression and colour, slight toning, rubbing and minor soiling at bottom left corner, reverse with pencil annotations, slight surface wear, loosely fixed to card mount with tape at top corners; the second, good impression of a Meiji edition, generally good colour, slight trimming, slight surface abrasions, the reverse with pencil annotations and fixed to card mount with tape at top corners.

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each a woodblock print, surimono, the first embellished with metallic pigment and embossing, both signed Gakutei, sealed Yashima, the first privately issued for the Kamige Suigyo Poetry Circle, circa late 1820s, the second published by Tsumura Isakichi of Akashi, circa 1890s; the first with collectors’ seals of Hayashi Tadamasa, Henri Vever and Gerhard Pulverer; the second with seal of Gerhard Pulverer only
Each shikishiban surimono:
21.2 x 18.5 cm, 8⅜ by 7¼ in. (the first)
20.6 x 18.4 cm, 8⅛ by 7¼ in. (the second)
来源：Hayashi Tadamasa (1853-1906) (the first)
Henri Vever (1854-1942) (the first)
Sotheby’s, London, Highly Important Japanese Prints, Illustrated Books and Drawings, from the Henri Vever Collection: Part I, 26 March 1974, Lot 345 (the first)
Gerhard Pulverer (b. 1930)
展览：Doitsu Puruvera korekushon ukiyo-e hanga meihinten [Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e from the Pulverer Collection], exhibited at the following venues:
Matsuzakaya Department Store, Osaka, 27th December 1990 - 8th January 1991
Matsuzakaya Department Store, Ginza, 24th - 29th January 1991
著录：Narazaki Muneshige, ed., Hizo ukiyo-e taikan, Puruvera korekushon [Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in Western Collections: The Pulverer Collection] (Tokyo, 1990), nos. 350-51.
Doitsu Puruvera korekushon ukiyo-e hanga meihinten [Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e from the Pulverer Collection] (Tokyo, 1990), p. 82, no. 2-69.
图录
说明：The original of this design was published by the Suigyo Poetry Circle in the late 1820s. The second print is from a large group of surimono made as facsimile reproductions by Tsumura Isakichi of Akashi near Kobe in the 1890s. Four distinctly different groups of such copies have been identified and dubbed Groups A, B, C and D. They were produced both in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; each group has their own characteristics.
For a similar impression of the original executed in the late 1820s in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number JP2374, go to:
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/54158