HASUI – Japanese Woodblock Print TWILIGHT SAIL 1930. Date: 1930, originally published by Kawaguchi and Sakai, this print is from a later edition Size: extra large oban , approx. 11″ x 16.25″ Condition: Fine, no flaws, uncirculated print, never framed Impression: Fine, solid key lines, nice surface texture, tight registration Color: Fine, deep saturated color and bleed through to verso Documentation: Kawase Hasui: The Complete Woodblock Prints , Hotei, 2003. ABOUT KAWASE HASUI Kawase Hasui (1883 – 1957) was a Japanese woodblock print maker in the early 20th century. Style, and are known especially for their excellent landscape prints. His works became widely known in the West through American connoisseur Robert O. In 1956, he was named a Living National Treasure in Japan. Hasui worked almost exclusively on landscape and townscape prints based on sketches he made in Tokyo and during travels around Japan. However, his prints are not merely. (famous places) prints that are typical of earlier. Hasui’s prints feature locale that are tranquil and obscure in the then-urbanizing Japan. The dreamlike quality in Hasui’s prints epitomizes a yearning for the past and a preservation of the past in the midst of rapid modernization. AND BOOKS ABOUT WOODBLOCK ARTISTS. The item “HASUI Japanese Woodblock Print TWILIGHT SAIL 1930″ is in sale since Sunday, April 16, 2017. This item is in the category “Antiques\Asian Antiques\Japan\Prints”. The seller is “belsipe” and is located in New York. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Color: Multi-Color
- Maker: Shobisha
- Type: Paintings, Scrolls, Prints
- Primary Material: Paper
- Age: Post-1940
- Region of Origin: Japanese
- Original/Reproduction: Original
- Details: Authentic hand carved and printed Japanese woodblock print
