Collection
Bathing Women
OGURA, Yuki1938
Information
- Title
- Bathing Women
- Artist
- OGURA, Yuki View artist Information
- Year
- 1938
- Collection
- Gift of the artist
- Medium
- color on silk, framed
- Size(cm)
- 209.0×174.5
- Collection ID no.
- J00448
Commentary
“When a woman depicts women bathing, it doesn’t seem obscene.” This seems like one possible reaction to a work of this kind, but unless the artist specifically sets out to draw a nude woman in an obscene (lustful, lascivious) manner, she is simply a naked human being. The reason this work seems so clean is that it is not devised to be a voyeuristic scene or peep show, or to present the kind of flirtatious glances, coquettish behavior or flushed cheeks found in a conventional bathing picture. Ogura’s interest was apparently roused by the hot springs in the tiled bathtub and the swaying, flattened state of the lattice pattern running in both directions.