Portrait of Mrs. Fritz W. Bilfinger

A companion portrait to the print of Fritz W. Bilfinger, this image depicts his wife — completing a pair of prints that document the German collector couple who were significant supporters of Japanese printmaking in the mid-twentieth century. Sekino's paired portraiture of collector couples was a form of institutional memory-making for the sosaku-hanga movement, preserving the faces of the patrons who made the movement economically viable.