Nude at Her Bath
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Honolulu Museum of Art
$500–$4,000. Common subjects: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Ishikawa's prints are relatively uncommon in the market. When available, good examples find ready buyers.
A nude woman tends to herself at her bath, the scene framed with a directness that treats the body as a subject of serious artistic study rather than titillation. Ishikawa Toraji employs the [oban](/glossary/oban) woodblock format to explore the play of light across skin, the weight of limbs at rest, and the private geometry of a figure absorbed in routine. The composition draws from both Western life-drawing traditions and the Japanese [bijin-ga](/glossary/bijin-ga) lineage of depicting women at their toilette. Toraji's nude studies were among the most ambitious in the [shin-hanga](/glossary/shin-hanga) movement, pushing the boundaries of what the collaborative print format could express about the human form.
Mutsu Tsuta onsen
1919
Color woodblock print; oban
1943
Color woodblock print
Autumn 1920
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
1924
Color woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Nude at Her Bath was created by Ishikawa Toraji (石川寅治).
Nude at Her Bath was published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
Nude at Her Bath depicts nude.
