Torii Kotondo (鳥居言人) (artist 1900 – 1976)
Makeup at Mirror
1930
11.875 in x 18.125 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print
Signed: Kotondo ga (言人画)
Date: Showa gonen natsu
昭和五年夏
Artist's seal: Shi
Publisher: Kawaguchi-Sakai
(seal in oval in lower left)
Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco
Minneapolis Museum of Art
Walters Museum of Art
National Museum of Asian Art On the back of is print is a hand-numbered limited edition seal which reads: Sanbyaku gojū mai kagiri zeppan, gojū ban(?). Also it is stamped: "MADE IN JAPAN".
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Illustrated in:
1) 鳥居言人 Torii Kotondo, Gallery Beniya, 1995, p. 25, no. 16.
2) in color in The New Wave: Twentieth-century Japanese prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection, Bamboo Publishing, Ltd. and Hotei Publishing, 1993, number 267, page 201.
3) Ukiyo-e to Shin hanga: The Art of Japanese Woodblock Prints, Mallard Press, 1990, p. 219.
4) In color in The Female Image: 20th century prints of Japanese beauties, Abe Publisher, 2000, #174-1, p. 130.
5) In color in Seven Masters: 20th-Century Japanese Woodblock Prints from The Wells Collection, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2015, p. 197.
6) in color in Printed to Perfection: Twentieth-century Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection by Amy Reigle Newland, et al., 2004, page 116. Below the image it says: "Striking in its forward sensuousness, the design of a woman attending to her toilette is another example of the expensive materials and the high quality printing that typified Kawaguchi publications. The use of a solid silver mica background and the minimal internal furnishings serve to emphasize the form of the young woman, who immediately draws our attention."
modern prints (shin hanga - 新版画) (genre)
Sakai Kawaguchi (酒井川口) (publisher)