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Subject:Geisha Portrait ID Mark
Posted By: Maria Price Mon, Dec 24, 2018 IP: 69.127.113.82

Can anyone Id this mark on this portrait and any other information Please? Thank you





Subject:Re: Geisha Portrait ID Mark
Posted By: Guy Pepermans Sat, Dec 29, 2018

The female artist Uemura Shōen (上村 松園, April 23, 1875 – August 27, 1949).

The girl is not a geisha but the depiction of a beauty (bijinga).

Guy.

Subject:Re: Geisha Portrait ID Mark
Posted By: I.Nagy Sat, Dec 29, 2018

Signature,
松園 - Shōen
DSeal,
松園 - Shōen

Uemura Shōen 上村松園 1875-1943
Famous bijin-ga (Paintings of beautiful women) paintress from Kyōto.
She started to use this seal only from 1922.

With regards,
I.Nagy


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