Catalog ID: 11101
Artist: Elizabeth Keith
Medium: Original Japanese Woodblock Print
Series Title: China Series
Edition: First and only
Date: 1934
Publisher: S. Watanabe Color Print Co.
Reference No.: Miles #27
Size: 14 -1/2 x 9 -1/2 "
Condition: Mint
Notes:
Artist: Elizabeth Keith
Medium: Original Japanese Woodblock Print
Series Title: China Series
Edition: First and only
Date: 1934
Publisher: S. Watanabe Color Print Co.
Reference No.: Miles #27
Size: 14 -1/2 x 9 -1/2 "
Condition: Mint
Notes:
RARE. Signed in pencil by the artist, and numbered '16' in the lower right corner. Numbered, titled and dated in pencil on verso: "(7) Chinese Lady, Peking, 1934". The Chinese beauties mandarin gown (qipao) is embellished with silver mica highlights throughout the dress's intricate patterns. Her dress and modern hairstyle was popularized in the 1930s and represents the height of modern fashion at the time.
Miles theorizes that this exceedingly rare portrait might have been intended as a gift to the sitter's family as it was apparently produced in an edition of less than 25 impressions and never reprinted.