Elizabeth Keith, Manchu Official, China

Notes: Pencil signed. A large over-sized work by the artist. Miles notes: "A portrait of a court nobleman. Edition of 75, but 40 known to have been printed". Provenance: This example bears the distinctive seal of the celebrated Western collector James D. Tobin. Tobin assembled arguably the world's most important collection of 20th-century Japanese prints. It was dispersed in the 1980s, with a large portion of the collection entering many of the finest institutions.