Recumbent Female Nude

Yamaguchi Susumu (山口進) (artist 01/25/1897 – 11/25/1983)

Recumbent Female Nude

Print


1926
11.25 in x 9.75 in (Overall dimensions) two-color Japanese woodblock print
From Hanga (版画) #9, print 5. Probably published by Hanga-no-ie in portfolio form with five original prints by various artists. Some of these issues contained prints by up to 8 artists.

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There are at least 5 prints in the British Museum created by Susumu. Three of these are shown on-line.

There are two prints in the Rijksmuseum, of which one is shown.

The Art Gallery of New South Wales owns two of his prints.

The Smithsonian owns one print, originally from the collection of Gerhard Pulverer.

There are 9 prints, none of which is illustrated online, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

The Chazen has one print.

The Art Institute of Chicago has two.

There are two at Harvard.

One at the Mead Art Museum at Amherst.

The Honolulu Museum of Art owns five prints by Susumu.

The Weatherspoon Museum at the University of North Carolina has one.

The Yokohama Museum of Art owns one print by Susumu.

The University of Sydney owns one print, a cubist still-life also from 1926.

There are two prints by this artist in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

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Illustrated in Susumu Yamaguchi Collected Works (山口進版画集), by Susumu Yamagich, Keisho-sha, 1979. Limited edition of 250.
Magazine or book frontispiece (kuchi-e - 口絵) (genre)
beautiful women (bijin-ga - 美人画) (genre)