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Original Water Colour of a Geisha holding a Shamisen
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A lovely large water colour, showing a woman in traditional geisha clothing, holding a Shamisen.* Painted onto thin mustard coloured paper, this has been laid onto a cream backing sheet (also thin paper), which has in turn been laid onto a larger sheet of thin paper. The three sheets together giving much more strength than a single thin sheet. The painting itself has been expertly produced, but is unsigned. (We have priced this as an un-attributable artist). The painting has some small cracks with creasing and a tiny amount of paint loss to it, but still a lovely, authentic piece of Edo art, very similar in style to the portraiture of Katsushika Hokusai (even to the background colour of the sheet). It is of a very similar period (between 1775 and 1800). The style of the painting, including the detailed depiction of clothing patterns and the graceful posture of the figure, is characteristic of bijin-ga (paintings of beautiful women), which were popular in Japanese art during this time. The use of vibrant colors, such as deep blue and red, and intricate patterns suggests that this piece may have been created by an artist influenced by ukiyo-e, a genre of woodblock prints and paintings that flourished during the Edo period. Artists like Kitagawa Utamaro or Suzuki Harunobu were renowned for similar depictions of women in elegant attire.It was possibly intended as a scroll painting. The painted sheet measures 70cm x 24cm. The largest backing sheet (and hence work overall) measures 81.5cm x 39cm. *The shamisen (???), also known as sangen (??) or samisen (all meaning "three strings"), is a three-stringed traditional Japanese musical instrument derived from the Chinese instrument sanxian. Geisha's were often skilled Shamisen players, and used them to entertain their customers. .
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