Rare and valuable Japanese color prints : the noted collection formed by a distinguished French connoisseur of Paris
A 1921 sale catalogue from the Walpole Galleries in New York, offering a collection of Japanese colour woodblock prints assembled by a French connoisseur in Paris, made for prospective collectors and dealers. The pictures are halftone reproductions of ukiyo-e prints showing elegant women in patterned kimono walking in groves, gardens and along paths, with fans, parasols and bamboo. A designer might take their flat compositions, dense kimono patterns and muted tonal palette, which translate well to textile and pattern work.
