Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934)
A young blond woman with a flower in her hair holds a black cat in her arms.
Title: Kuro neko (Black cat)
Series: Onna jûdai (Ten Women)
Signature: Yumeji
Seal: Yumeji no in (Merritt/Yamada) (Shûjin sankô cf. Lavenberg 1333)
Publisher: not specified. Date: Shôwa period, 20th c.
Original Japanese colour woodblock print. Size: Vertical Dai-Ôban, 41,5 x 27,7 cm (overall)
Very good impression and colours, on strong paper. Paper a little bit toned, verso in upper and lower margins narrow brownish remnants from previous mounting. Lower corners a little creased. Overall very good condition.
These beautiful large-format portraits of women by Yumeji were first published posthumously in 1938 as colour woodblock prints, printed by Katô Junji in Tokyo. These were based on watercolours that Yumeji created in 1920/21. Some woodblock printed editions of the ten portraits of women bear the series title "Onna jûdai" on the image. This colour woodblock print, as the early Katô editions, without series title.
€ 450,-