Top-100 artists:
We use our proprietary AI - LiveArt Estimate™ to calculate current market value for each artwork. Based on this data LiveArt is able to provide numerous insights into artist and artwork financial performance, including:
See the measure of artist investment performance relative to risk. A higher ratio suggests better risk-adjusted returns, indicating more consistent performance with less risk.
Explore the most prolific periods in an artist's career based on artwork production volume and current market value. It also segments these periods by category, offering insights into when the most valuable pieces were created in each category.
Free to sign up. No credit card required.
| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 11, 2019 | Christie's | Online | From Artist to Woodblock: Japanese Prints | 92 | $****** - ****** | Shoki gripping an Oni |
Prints & Multiples
37.3 x 26 cm (14.69 x 10.24 in)
Woodblock print
Signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi and with artist's seal Kuniyoshi. Censor's seals Hama (Hama Yahei) and Magome (Magome Kageyu)
Woodblock print
Signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi and with artist's seal Kuniyoshi
Published by Ebisuya Shoshichi (Kinshodo), circa 1848-53
Censor's seals Hama (Hama Yahei) and Magome (Magome Kageyu)
The Chinese legend of the demon queller was adopted into Japanese folk mythology during the Kamakura period (1185-1392) and took on the name 'Shoki the Demon Queller'. Kuniyoshi is known to have designed at lease five full-length figure prints of Shoki.
The same print is in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, museum no. 24709, go to:
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O129097/shoki-the-demon-queller-woodblock-print-utagawa-kuniyoshi/
The same print from the collection of Raymond A. Bidwell Collection is illustrated on the cover of the exhibition catalogue, UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI, An exhibition of the work of Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) based on the Raymond A. Bidwell Collection of Japanese Prints, The Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1980, and cat. no. 164.
For a different design in the collection of The British Museum, accession no. 2008,3037.21410, go to:
https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspX
Vertical oban: 37.3 x 26 cm. (14 ¾ x 10 ¼ in.)
