Kitagawa Utamaro

1753 (Edo) / 1806 (Edo)

Japanese painter, specialist in Ukiyo-e and who became famous for his beauty prints and erotic prints. The Viennese secession movement was strongly inspired by its molten bodies, the graceful curves of Japanese women wrapped in their kimonos and labyrinth of folds.



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