“Inventing Utamaro: A Japanese Masterpiece Rediscovered” reunites for the first time in nearly 140 years three works by the legendary Japanese ukiyo-e (“pictures of the floating world”) master, ...

In a complex two-year process, advisory firm Gurr Johns guided the court-ordered consignment of museum masterworks, which culminated in a white-glove sale that set new records for Utamaro and Hokusai.

Not seen together since 1879, the significant triptych painting by the legendary Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro will be reunited in “Inventing Utamaro: A Japanese Masterpiece Rediscovered” at the ...

Seldom does a show subvert expectations as subtly and deftly as “Inventing Utamaro: A Japanese Masterpiece Rediscovered” at the Smithsonian’s Freer-Sackler. The somewhat ambiguous title seems to ...

HARTFORD >> Two monumental scroll paintings by Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806) will be reunited for the first time in more than 130 years at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in an ...

Kitagawa Utamaro depicted women so well, it was said, because he knew them so well. He was a scholar, a connoisseur and, of course, a lover of women. That’s how the Japanese artist (1753-1806) was ...

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