Full Set Of 8 Japanese Color Prints Reproduced From The Rare Woodblock Originals
A Prize Collection of 8 Beautiful and Famous Japanese Woodblocks, reproduced from the rare, old originals.
The set published by Penn Press, New York circa mid to late 1950s.
Approximate size of the prints 18” by 13”
The set, for example, includes
Vintage Japanese Ukiyo-e Utamaro Woodblock Print Smoking Beauty
Print circa 1790s by Kitagawa Utamaro (c.1753-1806), best known for his “large-headed pictures of beautiful women” of the 1790s
Large-headed picture of a courtesan, or beauty, holding a smoking or kiseru pipe
Unused, never framed; stored in the portfolio folder, untouched, for decades.