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Hiroshige's Fans at the Guimet Museum in Paris

Published on , by Christophe Provot

This exhibition is built on a double paradox.

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), Untitled (Pine Tree Under a Full Moon, Through a Blind),... Hiroshige's Fans at the Guimet Museum in Paris
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), Untitled (Pine Tree Under a Full Moon, Through a Blind), c. 1849-1852, publisher Sanoya Kihei, 23.5 x 30.2 cm/9.25 x 11.88 in. Fundacja Jerzego Leskowicza
The first concerns Hiroshige, undoubtedly one of the most famous Japanese artists, along with Hokusai and Utamaro, but whose works shown here for the first time in France are the least well-known. The second concerns the prints themselves. Intended to decorate flat fans - uchiwa…
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