Lot 195 Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) | Tsukuda Island in Musashi Province (Buyo Tsukuda-jima) | Edo period, 19th century

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) | Tsukuda Island in Musashi Province (Buyo Tsukuda-jima) | Edo period, 19th century

EUR 50,000

50,000 - 70,000 EUR

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Very good impression of the early aizuri-e printing, very good colour, some very minor soiling to edges, tiny binding holes along the right-hand edge patched from verso, a few further small repairs, the red collector's seal showing through slightly to the front of the print, slight water mark to the right-hand edge of verso, the reverse with small pencil annotations to the top right and bottom right corners.

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woodblock print, aizuri-e, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei), signed Saki no Hokusai Iitsu hitsu (Brush of Iitsu, the former Hokusai), censor’s seal kiwame (approved), published by Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudo), early 1831, blue outline; with collector's seal of Gerhard Pulverer to verso
Horizontal oban: 25.5 x 37.1 cm, 10 by 14⅝ in.
来源：Gerhard Pulverer (b. 1930)
图录
说明：Passenger, pleasure and cargo boats are at sail in the bay of Edo around Tsukuda Island. In the foreground, the triangular supports around the cargo in the largest boat answers the conical shape of Mount Fuji. The subtleties of the newly imported Berlin blue pigment, the only colour used in this early printing, is fully exploited by the use of delicate graduations and small areas of over-printing.1 This is one of the first five designs from the series of which all were printed entirely in shades of Berlin blue. Later states introduced colours to the designs.
A similar impression of the same print is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The MET), accession number JP2563, go to:
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/57004
1. Timothy Clark, ed., Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave (London, 2017), p. 113.