Woman Clipping Her Toe Nails
- Date:
- 1920
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
Goyo completed only 14 woodblock print designs before his death in 1921, making every genuine impression extraordinarily rare. His bijin-ga are among the most refined of the entire shin-hanga movement. "Woman at the Bath" achieved $40,075 at Bonhams New York in 2020; Sotheby's estimates of $15,000–$25,000 are typical for top examples.
A woman clipping her toe nails — the most intimate and least conventionally decorative of Goyo's feminine self-care subjects, the act requiring the figure to bend forward in a posture that is entirely functional and unselfconscious. From 1920, this work demonstrates Goyo's willingness to follow feminine private life into its most mundane and unglamorous moments, finding in even the most ordinary acts of self-maintenance a subject worthy of the same careful observation he brought to his more conventionally beautiful subjects.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Woman Clipping Her Toe Nails was created by Hashiguchi Goyo (橋口五葉) in 1920.
Woman Clipping Her Toe Nails was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1920).
Woman Clipping Her Toe Nails depicts figures and bijin-ga.
