UTAGAWA SADAHIDE |JAPAN, ( 1807-1873) TRADITIONAL JAPANESE 'UKIYO-E' COLOR WOODBLOCK PRINT

SAMURAI WARRIOR SERIES, IN ORIGINAL BLACK ENAMEL BAMBOO WOOD FRAME

(Early to mid-19th century)

Antique Japanese woodblock prints

DIMENSIONS: 

Frame: 15" Width x 19" Height 

Image: 9 ½" Width x 13 ½" Height

DESCRIPTION:

This wonderful early to mid 19th century Japanese 'Ukiyo-e' color woodblock print by Japanese woodblock printmaking master artist Utagawa Sadahide (a former pupil of the Japanese color woodblock print master artist Utagawa Kunisida) is in relatively well-preserved overall antique condition. The colors remain vivid and saturated. There appears to be some slight lessening of the image and color intensity along the top margin in the atmosphere. There's also a very small, darker stain along the upper margin, the size of a small button. The image is otherwise clear, crisp, superbly rendered and artistically realized. The overall composition of three samurai warriors dressing and preparing their personal, layered armaments, is well balanced and seemingly effortlessly accomplished. The indigo, cerulean and slate blue, tangerine, sienna and charcoal black are wonderfully proportioned and balanced and the piece enjoys saturated, intense color, as well as faint washes, illustrating the subtle, master craftsmanship of the artist. An exciting, well accomplished figurative print, enjoying superb draughtmanship and exquisite detailing of the samurai warrior's antique military outfits. Handsome and in well-preserved overall condition. Gorgeous.

SIGNATURES AND STAMPS:

Signed by the artist and publisher with black ink and red-orange stamps in Japanese character calligraphy. 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

This early/mid-19th century Japanese color woodblock print by the celebrated, famous Japanese woodblock master Utagawa Sadahide is in very well preserved condition. 

Utagawa Sadahide, a former pupil of the Japanese woodblock print master artist Utagawa Kunisida, become another well-known, popular, prolific and financially successful Japanese designers of 'ukiyo-e' woodblock prints of 19th-century Japan. 

This original color woodblock print by Utagawa Sadahide, is from the early-to-mid 19th century, marked with the publisher's seal, titled and with the artist's signature.  

CONDITION: 

Good to Very Good overall vintage condition.