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The debtor's dream
Lost Art-ID
619209
Artist / Creator
Unknown (Japanese)
Title
The debtor's dream
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Ink coloured ; Paper / painted
Height
27.00 cm
Width
37.50 cm
Description
The debtor's dream: a procession of ghosts in various fantastical human guises presents the bills on New Year's Day; from a cycle of ghost paintings.
Provenance
Acquired in 1910 by Herbert Ginsberg from Otto Kümmel, East Asian art department; 1910 - at least end of 1929 Ostasiatica collection Herbert Ginsberg, Berlin; after 1945 no longer in the possession of Herbert Ginsberg; circumstances of loss unknown - a loss as a result of Nazi persecution cannot be ruled out. Whereabouts unknown
Literature / Source
Undatierter Katalog (um Nov. 1929), in: DigiBaeck, Leo Baeck Institute New York, Gilbert Family Collection, AR 1028/MF 818, Box 7, folder 4, S. 690-921, Abschnitt Malerei, Nr. 17; Oscar & Cacilie Graf, Japanisches Gespensterbuch, Verlag Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart, Berlin, Leipzig, 1925.
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