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JAPAN, 19th century Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)
Rare set o…
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JAPAN, 19th century Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)
Rare set o…
See original version (French)
Estimate €2,000 - €3,000
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Description
JAPAN, 19th century
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)
Rare set of six prints from the "Uwo Zukushi" series, including :
- "Shiba ebi" (Lobster and prawn)
- Ayu" (Trout)
- Hirame, mebaru, sakura", (Sole, sebaste and cherry blossom)
- Shimadai and Ainame Fish
- "Aji and Kuruma-ebi" (Mackerel and prawns)
- Awabi and Sayori" (Abalone, aiguillettes and peach blossom)
Circa 1832-1833
Nishiki-e, ink and colours on paper, partially micaceous, horizontal oban format, each with a collector's stamp in red.
Provenance: Collection assembled from 1904 by Lucien Hauman (1880-1965), professor of botany at the University of Brussels, previously appointed to the University of Buenos Aires, a man of great culture and a passionate traveller. Deeply attached to Japan and its culture, he made several trips there, during which he acquired prints from local dealers. On his death, the collection passed to his wife Blanche Hauman, and then to Hilda Claessens, former Director General of UNICE, and Francine-Claire Legrand, former Director of the Brussels Museum of Modern Art. Through family succession, it was then passed on to Frieda Van Ganse-Claessens, before being inherited by the current owners in Brussels in 2000.
Utagawa Hiroshige's Uwo Zukushi series ("Compilation of Fish" or "Varieties of Fish") is one of the most refined sets of his naturalist work. Produced in the 1830s and 1840s, this suite of prints belongs to the kachō-ga and gyo-e genre, devoted to representations of animals, flowers and aquatic creatures. Each composition generally combines fish, crustaceans or shellfish with a short calligraphic poem (kyōka), in a very refined layout inherited from the Japanese aesthetic of the Edo period. Hiroshige developed a particularly precise observation of the marine world: scales, shells, fins and transparencies are rendered with great delicacy, while retaining the decorative flexibility characteristic of ukiyo-e.
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