Lot 3048: YAMAKAWA SHUHO (1898-1944) One woodblock print From the series Fujo yondai (Women in four settings) entitled Tasogare (Twilight)

YAMAKAWA SHUHO (1898-1944) One woodblock print From the series Fujo yondai (Women in four settings) entitled Tasogare (Twilight), dated April 1928, signed Shuho followed by the artist’s maple-leaf seal, published by Bijutsusha - very good impression and color, very minor wrinkles, archival mounting tape to reverse top corners, museum pencil notation, otherwise very good condition 14 7/8 x 10 3/8in (37.7 x 26.3cm)

For other impressions, see Shinji Hamanaka and Amy Reigle Newland, The Female Image: 20th Century Prints of Japanese Beauties, Amsterdam, Hotei, 2000, p. 117, fig. 155, and Amy Reigle Stephens, Hiromi Okamoto and others, The New Wave: Twentieth- Century Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection, London and Leiden, Bamboo and Hotei, 1993, p. 179, fig. 227. Another impression of this print is published in Andreas Marks, Chiaki Ajioka and others, Seven Master: 20th-century Japanese woodblock prints form the Wells Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota : Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2015, p. 183, no. 132.