Rain. You forgot your umbrella. That’s what’s happening in this Japanese woodblock print — only it’s Tokyo (then called Edo), the year is 1857, and we’re crossing the Sumida River.
“I knew they were something,” Christina Kean says about the three Japanese woodblock prints she came across ... Kean says she and her husband watched the sale online and enjoyed seeing the ...
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Last week, two prints of Hokusai’s The Great Wave fetched over $800,000 each at auction in New York. Both Christie’s and Bonhams sold a print of the iconic ukiyo-e seascape in sales that coincided ...
Scholten Japanese Art opened their Asia Week Autumn 2024 exhibition, TREASURED VIEWS: The Neil Stipanich Collection of Kawase Hasui Woodblock Prints. Christie’s celebrates Asian Art Week at ...
Joichi Hoshi was a Japanese ... woodblock process. Born in 1913 in Niigata, Japan, Hoshi began his artistic career after working as an elementary school teacher in Taiwan for several years. He later ...
Scholten Japanese Art is presenting, On The Vanguard: Meiji Period Woodblock Prints, a two-part exhibition, with thirty prints in each section, exploring the creative expression seen in Meiji-era ...
The star of this auction was the archaic bronze drinking vessel, Zhou Zha Hu, which hammered for $4.4 million, making it the ...
To mark the British Council's 90th anniversary, Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Day and Online sale (Thursday, 10th ...
In retaliation, Japan engaged Bazoku (Manchuria guerrillas on horseback) to destroy the railway. Plate 17 (above) is a beautiful woodblock print of two Bazoku destroying the railway. A view of a ...
Additionally, there are several desirable prints by Lou Stovall (1974 serigraph titled An Exanthma of Clouds), Salvador Dali (1973 lithograph titled Le Paradis Perdu), and Japanese woodblock-print ...