Untiring appetite for Edo views takes set of prints to £480,000
Sotheby’s Olympia clinched the week’s loftiest price for an Asian work when a mighty £480,000 was placed by a Japanese telephone buyer probably bidding against the reserve for a complete set of Ando Hiroshige’s (1797-1858) 120 woodblock prints: The One Hundred Famous Views of Edo.
This large colourful series was Hiroshige’s last major work and arguably his most famous, with
seve…