Tiger in the Bamboo

Tiger in the Bamboo is a beautiful colored offset on silk, printed in 1956 by Edizioni Beatrice d'Este, a publishing house in Milan.

From the print suite Xilografie Giapponesi Policrome (in Italian and Japanese), with 14 reproductions of Japanese artworks. Our print is a superb reproduction on silk made by one of the major Japanese artists:  Kitagawa Utamaro 's masterpiece  Tiger in the Bamboo  in the perfect ukiyo-e style.

In excellent conditions, this artwork could give to your house a touch of exoticism!

Kitagawa Utamaro (1753 – 1806) was a Japanese artist, one of the most highly regarded designers of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings, above all known for his female portraits of the 1790s. He also produced nature studies, especially illustrating books of insects.

Little is known of Utamaro's biography. He was a prolific artist, who produced over 2000 known prints and was one of the few ukiyo-e artists to achieve fame throughout Japan in his lifetime.

Utamaro's work reached Europe in the mid-nineteenth century, achieving particular success in France, where he influenced European Impressionists.