Charcoal Foot Warmer, Itō Shinsui, December 1931, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Japanese and Korean Art
portrait; woman wearing a black kimono, burrowing her arms under a blue floral printed blanket with pink trim The Second Collection of Modern Beauties was another set of 12 prints issued in editions of 250. The First Collection of Modern Beauties had been completed in two years, but this new series took five years, because Shinsui was spending more time on his paintings.
Size: 16 ¼ × 10 3/16 in. (41.28 × 25.88 cm) (image) 23 × 19 × 1 ½ in. (58.42 × 48.26 × 3.81 cm) (outer frame)
Medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper with mica
