HYDRANGA AND A BIRD. A Japanese Woodblock Color Print.
OGATA, Gekkoh.
From RARE ORIENTAL BOOK CO., ABAA, ILAB, Aptos, CA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 3 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since June 19, 1997
From RARE ORIENTAL BOOK CO., ABAA, ILAB, Aptos, CA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 3 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since June 19, 1997
About this Item
[Japan n.c. ca. 1901]. A single sheet color woodblock print, very good, 12 x 23 cm., card mounted. A delicately pastel-colored print. Shows a bird on a Hydranga branch as it looks at a large pinkish-blue flower. * Ogata Gekkoh [1859-1920] was a Japanese style painter, and print maker. He was also known as a decorator of pottery and lacquer. Born and lived in Tokyo and he he was a founding member of the Bunten and frequent prize winner at its exhbitions. He served as an illustrator during the Sino-Japanese War. He followed first the style of Kikuchi Yosai, then studied the Ukiyo-e manner by himself. Evolved his own amusing way of treating genre subjects, which he applied to paintings as well as to illustrations for magazines and newspapers. * REFERENCES: R.P. Roberts: A DICTIONARY OF JAPANESE ARTISTS, p.123. for further details. * A. Stephens: THE NEW WAVE: TWENTIETH-CENTURY JAPANESE PRINTS FROM THE ROBERT O. MULLER COLLECTION, pp.83-88, illustrating numbers 39-48, and references showing 13 color examples, with useful support text. *. Seller Inventory # 21164101
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