Lot 004 · Print Art — 10 July 2026
After Kitagawa Utamaro — Woman Wiping Sweat
Sold for 3,100 HKD
- Model
- After Kitagawa Utamaro — Woman Wiping Sweat
- Category
- Art & Antiques
Specifications
- Technique
- Colour woodblock-style print on paper
- Dimensions
- 28 × 43 cm
- Presentation
- Presented new, rolled and housed in a protective art-storage tube suitable for works on paper.
Description
After Kitagawa Utamaro — Woman Wiping Sweat
Artwork Details
About the Work
KITAGAWA UTAMARO — WOMAN WIPING SWEAT
Based on the composition associated with Kitagawa Utamaro, *Woman Wiping Sweat* is presented here as a later printed edition. A single female figure occupies the vertical format, with the face treated in delicate linear detail and the patterned clothing providing the principal decorative structure. The supplied photograph shows the image clearly and supports the identification of the principal subject and orientation. Rather than treating the sheet as a period impression or unique work, the catalogue presents it conservatively as a later decorative reproduction, keeping the visual description separate from questions of authorship, date and edition. Its balance of flattened space, decisive contour and carefully controlled detail gives the sheet a strong graphic quality suited to contemporary interiors.
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