Kitagawa Utamaro · c.1793
Three Beauties of the Present Day
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Utamaro's portrait of three celebrated young Edo beauties — a triangular composition that looks like one face from three angles. MFA Boston.
Up to 7 × 10 in · portrait
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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The story of Three Beauties of the Present Day
Three Beauties of the Present Day is a nishiki-e colour woodblock print from c. 1792–93 by Japanese ukiyo-e artist Kitagawa Utamaro. The triangular composition depicts the profiles of three celebrity beauties of the time: geisha Tomimoto Toyohina, and teahouse waitresses Naniwaya Kita and Takashima Hisa. The print is also known under the titles Three Beauties of the Kansei Era and Three Famous Beauties .
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kitagawa Utamaro
Kitagawa Utamaro was a Japanese artist. He is one of the most highly regarded designers of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings, and is best known for his bijin ōkubi-e "large-headed pictures of beautiful women" of the 1790s. He also produced nature studies, particularly illustrated books of insects.
All Kitagawa Utamaro prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
