Rouge
- Date:
- 1931
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
$5,000–$40,000. Common subjects: $5,000–$10,000. Key value factors: Very limited output makes all prints relatively scarce. The 'Styles of Contemporary Make-up' series is most collected.
"Rouge," from 1931, depicts the application of lip rouge — the red cosmetic that was among the most transformative and symbolically charged elements of the modern woman's beauty ritual. Red lips signaled modernity, confidence, and the influence of Western cosmetic fashion on Japanese women of the Taisho and early Showa periods. Kobayakawa renders the brilliant red against pale skin with the chromatic precision that was his technical signature, making the color itself a subject as much as the act of application.
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Woodblock print
1/1931
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
1924
Oil on board
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Rouge was created by Kobayakawa Kiyoshi (小早川清) in 1931.
Rouge was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1931).
Rouge depicts bijin-ga and daily life.
