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Black Collar

A work made of color woodblock print.

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  • A work made of color woodblock print.

Date:

spring 1928

Artist:

Ito Shinsui
Japanese, 1898-1972

About this artwork

Itô Shinsui carefully distinguished the woman in the mirror from the figure in the foreground by slightly lightening the colors of the kimono in the reflection, and by drawing her face with sketchy lines that contrast with the unbroken contours delineating the real woman. He also applied powdered mica, a lustrous mineral, to evoke the mirror’s reflective surface. Shinsui’s contemporaries highly valued such depictions of idealized beauties in traditional settings.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Arts of Asia

Artist

Ito Shinsui

Title

Black Collar

Place

Japan (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1928

Medium

Color woodblock print

Dimensions

40.1 × 27.7 cm (15 13/16 × 10 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Anonymous gift

Reference Number

1984.59

Extended information about this artwork

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