Utagawa Hiroshige
Utagawa Hiroshige (Edo 1797-1858 Edo), ,2 color woodblock prints on vellum from the series "53 Stations of the Tokaido Road", 1837-44
- Station 31: "Maisaka", titled and signed on canvas, 18.2 x 24.6 cm (paper size: 21.4 x 28.3 cm), later print from the beginning of the 20th century, with the original invoice from Kaji's Antique, Kyoto, dated 2.10.1969;
- Station 55: "Blick auf die Sanjo Brücke in Kyoto", titled and signed in the canvas, 17.6 x 23.7 cm (paper size: 20.8 x 28.7 cm), later print from the beginning of the 20th century, mounted in a passepartout with sellotape and framed under glass in a plain wooden frame, overall size: 33 x 43 cm.
Limit 45,-
>> one of the three style-forming masters of the Japanese woodblock print. Woodblock print at the end of the Edo period. His importance lies in a completely new composition of the landscape print of his time and his decisive influence on the development of European Impressionism.
