ID 397969
Lot 177 | KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)
Estimate value
$ 80 000 – 120 000
Namichidori (Plovers above Waves)
The complete set of twelve woodblock prints with handcoloring with white mica ground
Illustrations:
1. A sexually fulfilled mother with her infant boy
2. Two penniless lovers rendezvous in a private outdoor spot
3. A widow exhausts her young lover; a box of sex toys is in the lower left
4. A passionate matron swoons under the embrace of her young lover
5. A wife instructs her husband how to pleasure her
6. A clownish bathhouse attendant (sansuke) forces himself on a young woman in a corner of a bathhouse; a servant without a purse, he stores his coin in his ear
7. A commoner husband and wife make love on a balmy summer night beneath a mosquito net
8. A young man enjoys a rare meeting with his lover, a popular courtesan
9. Taking advantage of her husband's absence a wife has invited her lover into her bedroom for amusements
10. A female abalone diver and her fisherman lover; the diver tries to dodge her lover's questions inspired by rumors of her infidelity
11. Another commoner wife joyous at her husband's absence calls in her lover
12. A man suckles his pregnant wife, indicated by the sash around her belly
Horizontal oban: 9 5/8 x 15 in. (24.4 x 38.1 cm.) each
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Artist: | Katsushika Hokusai (1760 - 1849) |
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Genre: | Figurative art |
Place of origin: | Japan |
Artist: | Katsushika Hokusai (1760 - 1849) |
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Genre: | Figurative art |
Place of origin: | Japan |
Address of auction |
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