Ito Shinsui

1898-1972

A Women in Western Dress (Red Gloves)
(Yoso no onna)

with mica highlights on the necklace and earrings; brush-signed at upper right, Shinsui ga, with artist's hand-applied seal Shinsui, with Watanabe publisher's seal at lower right corner, and pencil numbered on the bottom margin, 8/100, ca. 1960

15 1/8 by 16 7/8 in., 38.4 by 43 cm

A painting of nearly the same subject is included in Shinsui's catalogue raisonne and dated to 1958.

References:
Goto Shigeki, Ito Shinsui Zenshu, 1983, Vol. 4; cat. no. 10 (1957 painting)
Tadasu Watanabe, Ito Shinsui: All the Woodblock Prints, 1992, pp. 198-199, pl. 134
Amy Reigle Newland and Hamanaka Shinji, The Female Image: 20th Century Prints of Japanese Beauties, 2000, p. 82, pl. 97
Andreas Marks, Seven Masters: 20th Century Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Wells Collection, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2015, p. 150, no. 116
(inv. no. 10-5162)

price: $ 3,500 (reserved)