GOTO HASHIGUCHI (1880-1921), color woodblock print. Japan, 1920, 'Beauty applying makeup'
Depicting a beautiful woman applying make-up to her lips with brush and mirror. Dated Taisho 9.2 (second month, 1920), signed 'Goyo ga' with red seal Goyo. Image size 38 x 26 cm.
Not examined out of frame. Creases. Stains to the seal.
Provenance
The Collection of Sigrid Ahlgren (1865-1938). Married to Fredrik Ahlgren, Ahlgrens technical works and Läkerol. Thence by descent.
More information
Compare: Another woodblock print with this motif was previously sold at Sotheby's New York, March 24, 1999, in their auction: 'Japanese works of art including the collection of the late charles A. Greenfield - Part III'. See page 74, lot 221.
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