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- Museum number
- 1981,0410,0.4
- Title
- Object: Woman Applying Make-up
- Description
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Colour woodblock print with gold leaf and powdered mica background. Woman applying make-up to her shoulder with brush and mirror. Inscribed, signed and sealed.
- Production date
- April 1918
- Dimensions
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Height: 55.30 centimetres (Image)
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Height: 68.70 millimetres (Mount)
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Width: 39.40 centimetres (Image)
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Width: 51 centimetres (Mount)
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- Curator's comments
- Smith 1994
This is the grandest of the portraits of which Goyo personally supervised the printing. According to Blair (Blair, Dorothy, 'A Special Exhibition of Modern Japanese Prints', Toledo Museum of Art, 1930), the blocks and surviving print stocks of Goyo's small output were destroyed in the 1923 earthquake and are very rare. All of his female subjects are known to be geishas or waitresses in high-class restaurants or tea-houses, and hence professional beauties. In the 'Ukiyo-e' tradition of which he was a student he has concentrated the skills of the printer on the hair and the tie-dyed textile, as well as on the gilt back of the hand-mirror.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2015-2016 Dec-Mar, Seoul Arts Centre, The Human Image
- Acquisition date
- 1981
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1981,0410,0.4
