Shaving a Boy's Head - Kitagawa Utamaro - Japanese Edo period Ukiyo-e Woodblock Print Art Painting - Art Prints Rose Period Series set against a dark background

set against a dark background

One noteworthy example was his costume and stage design for the 1913 premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s early Modernist landmark The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du printemps)

The work depicts six saltimbanques

Though chiefly remembered for his painterly output

mainly hares

Shaving a Boy's Head - Kitagawa Utamaro - Japanese Edo period Ukiyo-e Woodblock Print Art Painting - Art Prints Rose Period Series set against a dark backgroundWhile this print may be another example of Utamaros attempts to avoid censorship by depicting a seminude woman as a paragon of motherhood, the effect here is only minimally erotic. This is partly due to both the womans and the barbers intense concentration on the slumbering child. And it is difficult not to sympathize with the young woman, who has become disheveled in her attempts to settle the child, perhaps finally resorting to breast feeding him so