Kitagawa Utamaro , artist
Japanese, 1754 - 1806 Young man making sexual advances to a courtesan, 1798 - 1802
color woodcut
25.3 x 38.1 cm (image)
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Artist Biography: Kitagawa (formerly Toriyama) Shimbi.Go= Entaisai, Issoshurichosai, Mokueun, Sekiyo, Utamaro. Studio name= Murasakiya, Shibaya. Painter and printmaker in Edo. Pupil of Toriyama Sekien, inlfuenced by Masanobu and Kiyonaga.
