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Waiting Beauty

Size: 40.0cm by 27.5cm (15.75 in by 10.83 in) | Enlargement | Shipping Code: [L] ?

Designer: Utagawa Kunisada

Era: Mid Showa | Currency: $ / £ / €

Price: ¥ 4,000$ 31.00£ 24.25€ 28.75 [Item has been sold]

Description: This print is from a set "Beauties by Three Great Artists" which consists of 20 reproduction prints by three major beauty designers of the Edo period: Hiroshige, Kunisada, and Eisen, published by Yuyudo in 1975.

A woman's kimono, twisted at the torso, gracefully fills the entire print. The black collar of the kimono and the inky night sky in the upper left corner provide striking contrasts that anchor the composition.

slight foxing

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