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UTAMARO, Kitagawa  (1750 - 1806)		Couple engaged in love-making
click to view larger version		Date:                 c. 1803 (this impression is from a later edition) Size:                 half-sized oban yoko-e (c. 16. 7 x 38 cms / c. 6 1/2" x 15") Condition:       very good to fine impression, color and condition. - Full paper size. VERY RARE. Ref. no.: # 591781 Price:  € 1,250.00

The size of this rare print is quite uncommon, and probably represents the only series by Utamaro in this unusual format: a half-size oban design would have been carved on one half of a woodblock, with another design carved from the other. - Another design from this series is in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (see ref. below). For another design from the series see: Japanese Erotic Fantasies, Amsterdam, 2005; no.47, p. 143.

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