'The Rain, Abstract in Ruby and Jade', sosaku-hanga, NMAO, Tokyo, LACMA, Benezit

1973

Signed lower right, 'Hiroyuki Tajima' (Japanese, 1911-1984) and dated 1979 with limitation and number, '100-10', lower center and titled lower left, 'Section of Landscape'. Paper dimensions: 19.75 x 12.5 inches An elegant abstract comprising juxtaposed vertical, rectangular forms in variegated shades of turquoise blue and copper. Engraver and printmaker, Hiroyuki Tajima was born in Tokyo in 1911 and graduated from Nihon University in 1932. In 1934, he graduated from the Tokyo School of Arts with a specialization in western-style painting. Tajima later studied fabric dyeing under Hirokawa Matsugoro (1889-1952) and woodblock printing with the Sosaku-Hanga artist, Nagase Yoshiro (1891-1978), a founder of the Japan Print Association (Hanga Kyokai). In 1946, inspired by Dada and Surrealism, Tajima joined Bijutsu Bunka Kyokai, a group dedicated to exploring and reviving the abstract and surrealist painting ideals that had been suppressed during WWII. Tajima exhibited widely and with success, including with Tokyo's Modern Art Association (Prix du Nouveau Venu, 1962), the Japanese Engraving Association, the Contemporary Japanese Art Exhibition in Tokyo (1962), the Northwest International Print Exhibition (1962-1964) and the Tokyo International Print Biennale (1964). His work is held in the permanent collections of museums worldwide including the Portland Art Museum (Oregon), the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (British Columbia), the Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia), the Carnegie Museum of Art, the National Museum of Art, Osaka (NMAO) and the British Museum in London. In describing Tajima's work, Frances Blakemore...

Signed lower right in graphite, 'Shoichi Hasegawa 長谷川 彰一' (Japanese-French, born 1929), titled lower center, 'le chapiteau et la guitare', with number...

Signed lower right, 'Bolin' for Gustav Bolin (Swedish, 1920-1999) and dated 1972; blind stamp lower left 'Editions du Damier - Paris' and inscribed lower left with number and limitat...

Signed lower right, 'Douglas McClellan', dated 1988 and titled lower left, 'Cretan View'; additionally signed, titled, dated and media noted as 'monotype with collage' on verso. A ...

Signed lower right, 'Miklos Pogany' and dated '1987'; titled lower left, 'Flight to Byzanthium'. Additionally signed verso, dated, titled and inscribed 'Monotype printed at Don Farns...

Signed lower right, in pencil, 'Ross Wetzel' (American, 1917 - 2013), titled lower left, 'E Pluribus Unum' and with number and limitation, '118/300'. Paper dimensions: 14 x 21 inches. Born in Chicago, Ross Wetzel was an avid art student through high school, and then enrolled- with his future wife and fellow artist, Janice- at the American Academy of Art in Chicago. He was soon working for Walt Disney Productions, taking lead production roles in the creation of such Disney classics as Pinocchio, Fantasia and Bambi. During the Second World War, he served with the Motion Picture Unit of the First Army Air Corp under Ronald Reagan, creating training films for fighter pilots and bombers and working beside actors including Alan Ladd and Clark Gable. After the War, Ross and Janice started a serigraphy business, which came to be known as Ross Wetzel Studios creating animated commercials and print advertisements for companies such as Kellogg's, Kleenex and Continental Airlines that featured such characters as Tony the Tiger and Toucan Sam. Ross was also hired to illustrate one of the first renderings of Smokey the Bear...

RYSZARD GIERYSZEWSKI (born in 1936) Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1964. He is a member of International Association XYLON in Switzerland. He participated in mo...

RYSZARD GIERYSZEWSKI (born in 1936) Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1964. He is a member of International Association XYLON in Switzerland. He participated in mo...

2004 Thirty-four color Ukiyo-e woodcut printed from 16 woodblocks on Torinoko paper and mounted onto Fabriano Classico paper Image/sheet: 37 1/2 x 26 inches Edition of 65 Signed and ...

Sean Scully Standing 2, 1986 Color Woodcut Signed, inscribed with title and numbered from the limited edition of only 35 in graphite on the front. Matted and elegantly framed in hand...

This is a unique woodcut print of a forest and stream in dark eggplant purple offset by a minty light teal greenish blue and pale yellow background. The monotype brings to mind the t...

This is a unique woodcut print of a forest and stream in dark eggplant purple offset by a minty light teal greenish blue and pale yellow background. The monotype brings to mind the t...