AUCTION
Tuesday, April 2 2019 - Sala Bolaffi, Via Cavour 17, Turin
11am
VIEWING
from Thursday 28 March to Tuesday 2 April (Sunday included) from 10am until 6pm
Sala Bolaffi, via Cavour 17, Turin
Ōban polychrome woodcut, signed Hiroshige ga in the upper right corner, published by Takenouchi Magohachi. From the series 'Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road',Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi.
9.65 x 14.57 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 2.000
Ōban polychrome woodcut, signed Hiroshige ga in the upper righ corner, published by Takenouchi Magohachi. From the series 'Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road' (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi).
9.65 x 14.17 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.700
Two beautiful polychrome woodcuts in aitanzaku format, titled Yellow bird and iris and Yamabuki and bullfinch, signed Hiroshige hitsu in the lower right corner.
12.4 x 4.45 in.
12.2 x 4.49 in.
Starting price: € 1.500 | Sold for : € 2.000
Group of eleven black and white woodcuts drawn from the three volumes of 'One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji', Fugaku hyakkei. Four have a lot of joints, different sizes.
7.48 x 5.31 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 850
Nagaban tatee polychrome woodcut, signed Zen Hokusai Iitsu hitsu in the lower left corner, published by Moriya Jihei, from the series 'Mirror of Chinese and Japanese poets', Shiika shashinkyō. Slightly trimmed, some delicate restoration.
19.80 x 8.82 in.
Starting price: € 2.000 | Sold for : € 4.200
Nagaban tatee polychrome woodcut, signed Zen Hokusai Iitsu hitsu on the right margin, published by Moriya Jihei. From the series 'Mirror of Chinese and Japanese poets', Shiika shashinkyō. Some delicate restorations.
19.49 x 8.66 in.
Starting price: € 3.000 | Sold for : € 5.500
Ōban polychrome woodcut, signed Saki no Hokusai Iitsu hitsu in the upper left corner, from the series 'Remarkable Views of Bridges in Various Provinces', Shokoku meikyō kiran.
9.45 x 14.37 in.
Starting price: € 1.500 | Sold for : € 2.800
Ōban polychrome woodcut, signed Saki no Hokusai Iitsu hitsu in the upper left corner and published by Nishimura Yohachi, from the series 'Thirty-six View of Mount Fuji', Fuji sanjūrokkei.
9.84 x 14.57 in.
Starting price: € 1.500 | Sold for : € 1.500
Ōban polychrome woodcut, signed Saki no Hokusai Iitsu hitsu in the upper left corner, published by Nishimura Yohachi, from the series 'Thirty-six View of Mount Fuji', Fuji sanjūrokkei. Some
delicate restorations.
9.65 x 14.37 in.
Starting price: € 2.000 | Sold for : € 4.400
FIGURE OF WEI TUO
China, 19th-20th Century
Carved, dry-lacquered and gilded wood. Figure fixed with wooden pins on the square base. Wei Tuo is the 'guardian of the entrance' in the Buddhist temples, the commander of the 'thirty-two celestial generals' and hence one of the
Starting price: € 1.500 | Sold for : € 2.800