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Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of the Kelvin Smith Family
Museum
Beauty with Fireflies
early 1800s
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Provenance
Public?–1971
(Kozo Yabumoto 藪本公三, Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, sold to Kelvin Smith)
1971–
Kelvin [1899–1984] and Eleanor Armstrong Smith [1899–1998], Cleveland, OH, by descent to their grand...
?–2015
Ellen Stirn Mavec [b. 1959], Hunting Valley, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
2015–
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Source provenance text
(Kozo Yabumoto 藪本公三, Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, sold to Kelvin Smith) Kelvin [1899–1984] and Eleanor Armstrong Smith [1899–1998], Cleveland, OH, by descent to their granddaughter Ellen Stirn Mavec Ellen Stirn Mavec [b. 1959], Hunting Valley, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Exhibitions
PublicNo rights-cleared exhibition history is published.
Sourced Overview Evidence
A young woman has passed beneath an aged willow tree as she strolls along a riverbank carrying a cage full of fireflies. The painting is a copy after Kubo Shunman, best known as a composer of witty verses in 31-syllables (<em>kyōka</em>) and designer of limited edition prints called <em>surimono</em>. Shunman was active during the mature era of ukiyo-e production, and his more formal paintings most often took as their subjects beautiful Chinese or Japanese women. Here, his imitator commemorates one of summer's most delightful evening pastimes, the observation of the flickering lights of the firefly. The woman is presented in a ubiquitous summer setting, a refreshingly cool and breezy riverbank in earshot of rustling willow leaves.
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Evidence state
0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 4 structured provenance events · 0 structured exhibitions.
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