Ito Shinsui — The Pink Kimono | Shin Hanga Bijinga

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Ito Shinsui — The Pink Kimono | Shin Hanga BijingaIto Shinsui (18981972) was the supreme bijinga artist of the Shin Hanga movement the painter of Japanese women whose prints combine psychological depth, chromatic refinement, and an unmatched sensitivity to textile and gesture. Championed by publisher Watanabe Shzabur, his portraits bathing women, women at mirrors, women in the rain are among the most collectible of all 20th century Japanese prints and are held in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and

Kanae Yamamoto (1882–1946) was the founding figure of the Sōsaku-hanga (creative print) movement in Japan — the artist who

Its illustrated manuscripts

Leyendecker's Arrow Shirt campaigns — featuring idealized male figures with a coded homoerotic sensibility — are now recognised as pivotal works in American LGBTQ+ visual history

and inner life of each subject

and later the diagonal elements of his Elementarism — were foundational to Bauhaus-era design and architecture

botanical studies

Santiago Rusiñol (1861–1931) was the defining figure of Catalan Modernisme and one of the most celebrated Spanish painters of his generation

His drawings — spare

His Black Square (1915) is a seminal moment in art history

Their floral and botanical compositions have the clarity

A regular exhibitor at Alfred Stieglitz's 291 gallery

perfectly observed — remain among the most collectible of all Shin Hanga prints and are held in major museum collections worldwide

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