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UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE: TOTSUKA, MOTOMACHI FORK
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2023年12月01日 开拍 / 2023年11月29日 截止委托
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UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE: TOTSUKA, MOTOMACHI FORK

By Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), signed Hiroshige ga
Japan, c. 1833–34 (Tenpo 4–5)

Color woodblock print on paper. Horizontal oban. Signed Hiroshige ga; publishers: Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeido) and Tsuruya Kiemon (Senkakudo). Titled Totsuka, Motomachi betsudo (Totsuka, Motomachi Fork), number 6 in the series Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi (Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road).

First version, with man dismounting from a horse.

SIZE of the sheet 23 x 34 cm

Condition: Good impression with slightly faded colors and trimmed margins, creasing along the centerfold.
Provenance: Galerie Wansart, Brussels, 15 February 1949. Collection of Robert and Isabelle de Strycker, acquired from the above. Robert de Strycker (1903-1968) was a French engineer who specialized in metallurgy. He was a Stanford graduate, a professor at the University of Leuven, a director of the Institute of Metallurgy at the Université Catholique de Louvain, and one of the most influential members of the faculty of applied sciences. After World War II, he made large contributions to France’s post-war recovery. Robert and his wife Isabelle (1915-2010) first encountered Chinese art at the British Museum during a stay in London in the 1930s. Enamored with the style and beauty, they both decided to study and collect Japanese and Chinese works of art. In 1938 they eventually began to build their collection, buying from Belgian, Parisian, and English dealers. They kept close contact with the famous English collector Sir Harry Garner (1891-1977) and noted Czech collector and expert Fritz Low-Beer (1906-1976). In 1964, the couple lent 174 objects from their collection to the Belgian city of Leuven’s museum for an exhibition titled Oude kunst in Leuvens Privébezit (‘Old Art in Private Collections in Leuven’), and in 1967 they lent around thirty Japanese objects to the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels for their exhibition Kunst van Japan im belgischen Privatverzameingen (‘Japanese Art in Belgian Private Collections’).

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 – 1858), also known as Ando Hiroshige, is recognized as one of the last great masters of the ukiyo-e (“pictures of the floating world”) woodblock printing tradition. His style can be characterized in the genre of landscape print, innovated by his early contemporary Hokusai (1760-1849). Hiroshige can be attributed to having created over 5,000 prints of everyday life and landscape in Edo-period Japan. Inspired by Katsushika Hokusai’s popular Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, Hiroshige took a softer, less formal approach with his Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido (1833–1834), completed after a trip he made between Edo and Kyoto, which is acclaimed to be perhaps his finest achievement.

He made numerous other journeys within Japan and issued a series of such prints, expressing in great detail the poetic sensibility inherent in the climate and topography of Japan and its people. Hiroshige’s prolific output was somewhat due to his being paid very little per series. Still, this did not deter him, as he receded to Buddhist monkhood in 1856 to complete his brilliant and lasting One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (1856–58). He died in 1858, 10 years before Monet, Van Gogh, and a lot of Impressionist painters became eager collectors of Japanese art.

Museum comparison:
An identical print is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number 21.5006. Another identical print is in the collection of the Honolulu Museum, source Id 2958.

Auction comparison:
Compare an identical woodblock print, sold at Christie’s, Japanese and Korean Art Including the Collection of David and Nayda Utterberg, 22 March 2022, New York, lot 202 (sold for USD 6,048).

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