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Stockno.:23-225
Artist:Torii Kotondo 鳥居言人 (1900-1976)
Description: Vapour (Yuge 湯気). Published by Sakai-Kawaguchi (in left margin: Sakai Kawaguchi go ban (joint venture) in October 1929. Numbered 57 from a limited edition of 200; first edition paper seal verso. (Gaikoku iki ni-hyaku mai kagiri zeppan, dai 57, Torii Kotondo (for foreign export, limited edition of 200 printed, number 57, by Torii Kotondo) Block-cutter: Itō. Printer: Komatsu Wasakichi.
Signed:Kotondo saku plus artist's seal reading Kotondo.
Size:Dai-oban tate-e; 30.2 x 46.7 cm.
Condition:Faint discolouration, slightly faded, otherwise very good.
Price:Euro 2900 SOLD
Reference:The Female Image, figure 171, page 128. The new wave: Twentieth-century Japanese prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection, 1993, p. 198, pl. 263. Waves of Renewal, pl. 239, p. 278.