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Six poets in silver signs
Lost Art-ID
622369
Artist / Creator
Katsushika Hokusai
Lebensdaten
1760-1849
Title
Six poets in silver signs
Dating
1810
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
printed (woodcut) polychrome
Height
39.50 cm
Width
26.00 cm
Description
Series of six depictions of poets whose bodies are formed from the silver symbols of their names.
Provenance
[...] - at least at the end of 1929 Ostasiatica collection Herbert Ginsberg, Berlin; after 1945 no longer in the possession of Herbert Ginsberg; circumstances of loss unknown - a loss as a result of Nazi persecution cannot be ruled out. Whereabouts unknown
Literature / Source
Undatierter Katalog (um Nov. 1929), in: DigiBaeck, Leo Baeck Institute New York (LBI NY), Gilbert Family Collection, AR 1028/MF 818, Box 7, folder 4, S. 690-921, Abschnitt Japanische Holzschnitte, Nr. 263-267.
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