1910s Animal Prints

Kogyo Tsukioka, 'Mandarin Ducks', color woodcut, c. 1910. Signed 'Kogyo', lower right. A fine impression from a later printing, on cream Japan paper, with fresh colors; the image printed to the sheet edges, in excellent condition. Image size 9 1/2 x 9 7/8 inches (241 x 251 mm). Archivally sleeved, unmatted. One of about fifty kacho-e (bird and flower prints) in the shikishiban (almost square) format designed by Tsukioka Kōgyo for the publisher Daikokuya (Matsuki Heikichi) around the turn of 20th century. ABOUT THE ARTIST Kogyo Tsukioka (1869-1927) was a Japanese artist of the Meiji period. He was a student and adopted son of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, and also studied with Ogata Gekkō...

Chicken and Rooster Color woodcut with embossing, 1914-1915 Signed: Kiyochika (see photo_ Seal: Artist's red signature seal (See photo) Publisher: Watanabe (see photo) Format: Oban Condition: Excellent Image size: 11 3/8 x 15 5/8 inches Provenance: Robert O. Muller Collection (1911-2003), famous collector and dealer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kobayashi Kiyochika 小林清親 Born Kobayashi Katsunosuke 10 September 1847 Edo, Japan Died 28 November 1915 (aged 68) Tokyo, Japan Nationality Japanese Movement ukiyo-e Kobayashi Kiyochika (小林 清親, 10 September 1847 – 28 November 1915) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, best known for his colour woodblock prints and newspaper illustrations. His work documents the rapid modernization and Westernization Japan underwent during the Meiji period (1868–1912) and employs a sense of light and shade called kōsen-ga [ja] inspired by Western art techniques. His work first found an audience in the 1870s with prints of red-brick buildings and trains that had proliferated after the Meiji Restoration; his prints of the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95 were also popular. Woodblock printing fell out of favour during this period, and many collectors[who?] consider Kobayashi's work the last significant example of ukiyo-e. Life and career Kiyochika was born Kobayashi Katsunosuke (小林 勝之助) on 10 September 1847 (the first day of the eighth month of the ninth year of Kōka on the Japanese calendar) in Kurayashiki [ja] neighbourhood of Honjo in Edo (modern Tokyo). His father was Kobayashi Mohē (茂兵衛), who worked as a minor official in charge of unloading rice collected as taxes. His mother Chikako (知加子) was the daughter of another such official, Matsui Yasunosuke (松井安之助). The 1855 Edo earthquake destroyed the family home but left the family unharmed. Though the youngest of his parents' nine children, Kiyochika took over as head of the household upon his father's death in 1862 and changed his name from Katsunosuke. As a subordinate to a kanjō-bugyō official Kiyochika travelled to Kyoto in 1865 with Tokugawa Iemochi's retinue, the first shogunal visit to Kyoto in over two centuries. They continued to Osaka, where Kiyochika thereafter made his home. During the Boshin War in 1868 Kiyochika participated on the side of the shōgun in the Battle of Toba–Fushimi in Kyoto and returned to Osaka after defeat of the shōgun's forces. He returned by land to Edo and re-entered the employ of the shōgun. After the fall of Edo he relocated to Shizuoka, the heartland of the Tokugawa clan, where he stayed for the next several years. Kiyochika returned to the renamed Tokyo in May 1873 with his mother, who died there that September. He began to concentrate on art and associated with such artists as Shibata Zeshin...

Christian Ludwig Martin worked in Vienna. He was an artist, illustrator, and teacher. This print is titled (partially indecipherable - 'Pfende' is 'Horses') in German, and signed in pencil. It is on a large sheet. (Fighting Horses...

The Fox and the Geese Lithograph by Briton Riviere 1868 Lithograph c1918 Briton's father, William Rivière (1806–1876), was for some years drawing-master at Cheltenham College, and...

Original colored lithograph from a portfolio entitled " Nakagawa Zhuanshu." Nagoya, Japan, circa 1917.

Hungry Dogs, Second State Lithograph, 1916 Considered to be the artist's first lithograph Signed, titled and numbered in pencil by the artist (see photo) Titled "Hungry Dogs" by the artist in pencil (see photo) Edition: at least 41 impressions, this "No. 14" Reference: Masson 1B ii/II Condition: Printer's ink in margins, otherwise very good condition. Note: The artist's first lithograph. The "Ash Can School" is derived from this image and its' depiction of an ash can in the lower left of the composition. A very important American 20th Century print. This image gave rise to the naming of the most important American style of painting in the first quarter of the 20th century. Provenance: Estate of the artist H. V. Allison & Co., New York (Bellows estate dealer) Private Collection, Columbus, Ohio (Bellows city of birth) From 2001 to 2018, Thomas French Fine Art was the exclusive agent for the Bellows Family Trust. Thomas French Fine Art and The Bellows Trust hold a large inventory of original lithographs and drawings created by George Wesley Bellows that were left in the artist’s studio at the time of his unexpected early death. All of George Bellows’ original lithographs were printed by the artist or under his direct supervision. There are no posthumous impressions of any of George Bellows’ lithographs...

Original colored lithograph from a portfolio entitled " Nakagawa Zhuanshu." Nagoya, Japan, circa 1917.

Original colored lithograph from a portfolio entitled " Nakagawa Zhuanshu." Nagoya, Japan, circa 1917.

Original French vintage Mangez moins de viande pour ménager notre cheptel color lithographed poster signed "Martha Picard, 16 years old,. Municipal School, Boulevard Pereire 221". Th...

Benson, Frank. SPRIGTAIL. Pfaff 151. Etching, 1918. Edition of 50. Signed in pencil. 4 x 5 inches, plate. Framed to 9 7/8 x 12 inches. In excellent condition.

Oversized work of three men mounted atop camels who gaze intently into the distance at left, stars glowing in the deep indigo night sky above. A touching and subtle rendering of the Christmas story. There is a mystical flourish in the foreground that appears almost as a glowing ember, with smoke wafting before the travelers. Perhaps it is guiding them, as they seem to follow its direction with their gaze. The pencil annotation seems to read “Copyright 1918 by Bertha Lum...

Krankes Pferd ("Sick Horse") is an original etching realized by Oswald Rouxin 1916. Printed by k. k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei Wien / Albert Berger Wien; published in the "Jahresmappe...