Woman Helping a Man Put on His Coat ('Man Departing'), from the series Poetic Immortals for the Arts (Gei kasen), ca. 1768-72 (Meiwa 5-An'ei 1), woodblock print (nishiki-e), chuban tate-e, signed 'Ippitsusai Bunchô ga', with red collector's seal of Hayashi Tadamasa (1853-1906)



Literature:
MFA, Suzuki Harunobu (exh. cat., 2017), #137; MFA, Printed Treasures (2008), #62



Note: The only other copy of this print we could find is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, viewable here: https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/woman-helping-a-man-put-on-his-coat-from-the-series-poetic-immortals-for-the-arts-gei-kasen-211844
h. 10 w. 7-3/8 in.
Provenance: James Merrill (1926-1995), American poet, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry (1977);
The estate of J.D. McClatchy (1945-2018), American poet, librettist, literary critic, and former president of The American Academy of Arts and Letters, Stonington, CT

faded UPDATED 3/30: Click here to see additional hi-resolution photographs of this lot