Archive for March 20th, 2018
Sekka Collection Japanese Modern Woodblock Print
Author: adminMar 20
RARE! 1937 Kawase Hasui Mica Rain Original Japanese Woodblock Print BEAUTIFUL
Author: adminMar 20
Size: 16 x 10 -3/4 (Oversized margins). Print has been properly stored flat in a print folio for the past 70 years. Watanabe print shop in the mid-1940′s and has always been properly stored away. Condition: Very fine, with full oversized margins and MINT delicate mica rainfall showcased in the multiple images. Has all the qualities of a first state impression with period paper, darker impression and dated provenance as well. An ancient pine tree at the side of a pond; it conveys the brooding mood of a bleak nocturnal downpour. This work was undoubtedly created to rival the print’Night Rain at Karasaki’, by Hiroshige. Please view our other listings of Japanese Woodblock Prints! The item “RARE! 1937 Kawase Hasui Mica Rain Original Japanese Woodblock Print BEAUTIFUL” is in sale since Sunday, March 18, 2018. This item is in the category “Art\Art Prints”. The seller is “sho88gun” and is located in Sacramento, California. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Originality: Original
- Date of Creation: 1900-1949
- Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
- Subject: Landscape
- Style: Asian
- Size: Medium (up to 36in.)
- Artist: Kawase Hasui
- Original/Reproduction: Original Print
- Signed: Signed
- Print Type: Woodcut & Block
- Size Type/Largest Dimension: Medium (Up to 30in.)
- Print Surface: Paper
- Medium: Woodcut & Block
- Year: 1937 (1940′s Ed.)
- Quantity Type: Single-Piece Work
- Features: Signed
MINT! 1933 Kawase Hasui Zaimoku Island Original Japanese Woodblock Print
Author: adminMar 20
Size: 15 -1/4 x 10 -1/4. Watanabe red square “Gift” Seal (used on early prints created as gifts or private publication). 440 Print has been properly stored flat in a print folio for the past 70 years. Watanabe print shop in the mid-1940′s and has always been properly stored away. Condition: Very fine, with full margins and MINT colors. Has all the qualities of a first state impression with period paper, strong impression and dated provenance as well. A superb composition of the unusually shaped rock at Zaimoku island, together with the image of a sail-boat, the silhouettes of the distant islands and clouds. Hasui once wrote regarding the print: Matsushima is one of the celebrated’three views in Japan’… This work illustrates a boat with white sail moving behind Zaimoku island, and it depicts the scene one late autumn afternoon. Please view our other listings of Japanese Woodblock Prints! The item “MINT! 1933 Kawase Hasui Zaimoku Island Original Japanese Woodblock Print” is in sale since Sunday, March 18, 2018. This item is in the category “Art\Art Prints”. The seller is “sho88gun” and is located in Sacramento, California. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Originality: Original
- Date of Creation: 1900-1949
- Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
- Subject: Landscape
- Style: Asian
- Size: Medium (up to 36in.)
- Artist: Kawase Hasui
- Original/Reproduction: Original Print
- Signed: Signed
- Print Type: Woodcut & Block
- Size Type/Largest Dimension: Medium (Up to 30in.)
- Print Surface: Paper
- Medium: Woodcut & Block
- Year: 1933-1942
- Quantity Type: Single-Piece Work
- Features: Signed