Butterfly Dance - Summer (AP) | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2024.68
People: Yoshida Chizuko 吉田千鶴子, Japanese (Yokohama, Japan 1924 - 2017 Tokyo, Japan)
Title: Butterfly Dance - Summer (AP)
Other Titles: Original Language Title: 蝶舞うー夏
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 1984
Places: Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period: Shōwa era, 1926-1989
Culture: Japanese
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/383957

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Zinc plate and woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Dimensions

horizontal ōban: H. 30.2 × W. 41.9 cm (11 7/8 × 16 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

(not assigned): signed and dated: (in latin characters, in pencil): Chizuko Yoshida 1984

On left side, bottom: titled: (in Japanese characters, in pencil): 蝶、舞う～夏 a.p.

(Chou, mau ~ natsu)(Butterfly Dance - Summer)

On back: (in pencil): C-3806 [invoice number from Scholten]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Yoshida Family Collection, Japan, (by 2023), sold; to [Scholten Japanese Art, New York, NY (by 2023)], sold; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2024.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State: artist’s proof
Edition: Edition Size: 100

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art
Accession Year: 2024
Object Number: 2024.68
Division: Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact: am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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