Tadashi Nakayama, Original Japanese woodblock print, Signed, Dated 1963, 15/55. The Artist was most famous for Horses prints like this one. This is a scarce find with a small edition. It is a huge awsome print, it measures 40″x25 3/4″! In very good vintage condition, it was never framed before and there is no foxing at the back of the print. 48 at Hendricks catalog, pp. ARTIST: Tadashi Nakayama SERIES: Woodblock print TITLE or SUBJECT: Seiso, Gala Dress. SIGNATURE or SEAL: Signed at lower left margin, edition 15/55 DATE or CIRCA: Dated 1966 PAPER SIZE: 40″ x 25 3/4″, 100x64cm IMPRESSION/COLOR/CONDITION: Very Good/ Very Good/ Very Good. CONDITION DETAILS: Very good. ALL OUR PRINTS ARE ORIGINAL JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS. Since Tadashi Nakayama b. 1927 discovered the traditional Japanese technique of color woodblock printing for himself as an ideal print medium, the development of his art took a distinctive turn. The gorgeous prints – finished in gold and silver – require great effort and are created in up to fifty individual print processes. Tadashi Nakayama was born in 1927, when his hometown of Niigata was still a small, quiet and traditional town on the main Japanese island of Honshu, located where the Shinano river flows into the Japanese sea. Today, Niigata is a large city in a region rich in crude oil and natural gas. The devastating destruction of the earthquake of 1964 marks the beginning of a transformation of the area into one full of refineries, industry and modern architecture. Despite the previous isolation and distance from Japanese artistic and intellectual life, Tadashi Nakayama felt drawn to art since he was a boy. At 14 years old he began to paint with oils and practicing sketching and drawing. He had to learn art entirely by himself, slowly coming up with his own art. In 1945 Nakayama enrolled at the Tama College of Art to study oil painting. There he met his future wife, who enrolled the year after. Whereas she completed her studies, Nakayama, however, left the school after two years without finishing. He was accustomed to working alone and to experimenting and developing his own art. In 1951 Tadashi Nakayama created his first color woodblock print and in 1953 he began creating lithographs. He gave up the latter in 1957 but nevertheless taught lithography at the Tama College of Art with great success. As an artist he was much more interested in woodblock printing. It remained his preferred medium and brought him worldwide fame. Birds, flowers, horses, butterflies, and occasional architectural elements are among his favorite subject matters from this early period. The bleak matte color in contrast to the rich tones establishes a mystical atmosphere that gives his work its uniqueness and distinctness. Tadashi Nakayama tinkers meticulously with his prints. His growing love for detail requires an extraordinary number of printing plates and print processes. Furthermore he applies the gold and silver leaves in a method he himself developed. To reach such a degree of perfection, Nakayama first completely designs his prints in water color that plot out the appearance of each woodcut exactly. Nakayama goes yet even further. His upper layers have seldom an opaque consistency. The colors are often glazed in multiple layers, applied just on top, creating a vivid whole that has the clear colors contrasting with diffuse brilliance. Exhibitions of Tadashi Nakayama. Tadashi Nakayama’s participation in exhibitions is only moderately documented although his work has been shown in many famous exhibitions and although it has spread internationally. Nakayama is reluctant to participate in competitions and does so only when he is explicitly invited. Otherwise he avoids situations of self measurement and withdraws from the public. 1957 – International Print Biennial in Tokyo, Japan. 1962 and 1963 – Milan, Italy. 1964 – Rome, Italy. 1968 – International Print Biennial in Krakow, Poland. Since 1969 – CWAJ-Exhibitions, Tokyo, Japan. 1993 – Niigata and Tokyo, Japan. 2000 – Tokyo, Japan. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia. Cincinnati Museum of Art, Ohio, USA. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco – Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, USA. Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Library of Congress, Washington, D. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA. Western Australian Art Museum, Perth, Australia. National Gallery of Victoria, Australia. Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Your satisfaction guarenteed, if you are not pleased with the item please send it back. WE WILL NOT CHARGE ADDITIONAL PAYMENTS FOR MULTIPLE AUCTIONS, YOU CAN. The item “Tadashi Nakayama, Original Japanese woodblock print, Signed, Dated 1963, 15/55″ is in sale since Thursday, March 26, 2015. This item is in the category “Antiques\Asian Antiques\Japan\Prints”. The seller is “moses_collectibles” and is located in Petah-Tikwa, default. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Type: Paintings, Scrolls & Prints
- Age: Post-1940
- Region of Origin: Japan
- Original/Reproduction: Original
