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Kawase Hasui'Rain at Shinagawa, Ryoshimachi' — lifetime impression1931
1931
About the Item
A fine, atmospheric impression, with fresh colors; the full sheet, in excellent condition. Signed 'Hasui' with the artist’s seal 'Kawase', lower left. Published by Watanabe Shozaburo with the Watanabe 6mm round seal indicating a lifetime impression printed between 1945 - 1957. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Image size 14 1/4 x 9 3/8 inches (362 x 238 mm); sheet size 15 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (391 x 264 mm).
An impression of this work is in the permanent collection of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Achenbach Foundation.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
“I do not paint subjective impressions. My work is based on reality...I can not falsify...(but) I can simplify…I make mental impressions of the light and color at the time of sketching. While coloring the sketch, I am already imagining the effects in a woodblock print.” — Kawase Hasui
Hasui Kawase (1883–1957) is the most celebrated Japanese print designer of the shin-hanga ('new prints') movement. His prints, produced under the guidance and discerning eye of his publisher, Watanabe Shozaburo, represent the modern legacy of the renowned 19th-century Ukiyo-e masters Hiroshige and Hokusai. Hasui was able to evoke the fleeting beauty of Japan during the interwar period as no other printmaker of his time could.
Hasui's work enjoyed huge popularity upon producing his first print in 1918. Watanabe recognized and developed the enormous potential of the American market, resulting in Hasui's prints achieving high prices at auctions in New York as early as the 1920s. After the Second World War, his prints became highly sought-after collectible works among the American occupying forces in Japan. Hasui designed more than 600 prints during the 40-year span of his artistic career, and in 1956, he was named a 'Living National Treasure' of Japan.
Hasui’s woodblock prints are included in many important museum collections of Japanese prints worldwide, including the Art Institute of Chicago; British Museum; Brooklyn Museum; Clark Art Institute; Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; Freer Gallery of Art; Harvard Art Museums; Indianapolis Museum of Art; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Japan Ukiyo-e Museum, Matsumoto, Japan; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Minneapolis Institute of Art; MOA Museum of Art, Japan; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Portland Art Museum; Stanley Museum of Art; Toledo Museum of Art; Tokyo Museum Collection, Japan; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Walters Art Museum, Smart Museum of Art; and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
- Creator:Kawase Hasui (1883-1957, Japanese)
- Creation Year:1931
- Dimensions:Height: 14.25 in (36.2 cm)Width: 9.38 in (23.83 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Myrtle Beach, SC
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