Taiso Yoshitoshi

The Battle of the Wrestlers and the Fireman at Shimmei Shrine

March 22, 1886

WO RO SI IA ZIN Russian Soldier with His Family Color woodcut, 1861 2nd month Signed upper left (see photo) Titled upper right in black cartouche (see photo) Format: oban Style: Yokohama-e Publisherr: Sagamiya Tokichi (Marks #435) active 1955-1866 Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, has an impression of this image RARE Condition: with usual aging Image size: 13 7/8 x 9 3/8 inches Rebecca Salter in her Japanese Popular Prints... on page 18 gives a different take on the situation that Yoshifuji found himself in. "A giant of the period, however, was Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-861). Although best known for warrior prints which reflected the militaristic undercurrents of the time, he was also responsible for some of the most light-heartend and humorous works in this book. His followers in the Utagawa school, Utagawa Yoshitsuya...

Signed: Harunobu ga Series: Series: Eight Fashionable Parlor Views (Furyu zashiki hakkei)? Format Japanese: chuban Provenance: Private Collection, Philadelphia Collection of McCleaf ...

Les Amateurs d'Estampes Woodcut, 1892 Initialed in the plate lower left Titled below image: "Gravure originale sur bois par F. Vallotton" Reference: Valloton and Goerg 107c, with the purple address stamp upper right center (see photo) Condition: Excellent Aging to sheet One spot of printers ink outside of the image in the upper margin Block size: 7 3/8 x 10 inches Sheet size: 10 1/8 x 12 3/4 inches Condition: Very good, aging (yellowing) to the paper Provenance: Edmund Sagot (1881-1917), noted Parisian art dealer and print publisher By decent Vallotton was a noted member of the Nabi, highly regarded for his paintings and original woodcuts. His works are in most major museums. Thank you for your interest in the Vallotton woodcut, Les Amateurs d’Estampes (Print Lovers). It depicts print collectors admiring the new offerings in the window of the Sagot Gallery in Paris. The woodcut is the second published version of the address card for Edmund Sagot the noted Paris art gallery with the change of address in lavender ink. It had moved and hence the change of address was necessary for publicity. The woodcut was created in 1892. It is unsigned as all the address cards are. There are two size variants, this being the larger of the two. It is printed on a tan wove paper. It is in excellent original condition. The provenance is from the Heirs of Edmund Sagot (1857-1917). by decent. The Sagot family was noted for selling posters, fine prints and original works of art. Edmund’s brother Clovis, was Picasso’s first dealer in Paris. The image is documented in the Vallotton and Goerg catalog raisonne in entry 107c Impressions of this image can be found in many museums including: Bibliothèque nationale de France De Young/Legion of Honor/Fine Art Museums of San Francisco Newfields, Indianapolis Museum of Art National Gallery of Australia Musee Des Beaux-Arts du Canada Van Gogh Museum Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Portland Art Museum Kunst Museum, Holland Philadelphia Museum of Art Yale University Art Gallery Félix Vallotton, in full Félix Edouard Vallotton, (born December 28, 1865, Lausanne, Switzerland—died December 28, 1925, Paris, France), Swiss-born French graphic artist and painter known for his paintings of nudes and interiors and in particular for his distinctive woodcuts. Vallotton was raised in a traditional bourgeois and Protestant household. After completing secondary school, he left Lausanne in 1882 for Paris to pursue art studies. Though he was accepted by the École des Beaux-Arts, he chose to attend the less traditional Académie Julian, where he studied with French painters Jules Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger and enjoyed virtually free rein over his pursuits. He took the opportunity to study graphic arts—lithography and other methods of printmaking. He exhibited publicly for the first time in 1885 at the Salon des Artistes Français—the oil painting Portrait of...

No Footprints Show, Where the Flowers Grow Deep Woodcut, 1961 Unsigned (as isssued) From: The "Way" of the Woodcut, three woodcuts, 1961 Publisher: Pratt Adlib Press, Brooklyn, New Y...

The Child Plants an Oak Tree in the Garden Woodcut, 1961 Unsigned (as issued) From: The "Way" of the Woodcut, three woodcuts, 1961 Publisher: Pratt Adlib Press, Brooklyn, New York,19...

Plate 12 From: 10 Origi, 1942 Signed in the block with the artist's initials lower left (printed) From: 10 Origin Not from the First edition 100, published by Allianz-Verlag, Zurich,...

Image dimensions: 28 x 18 cm. The Fire is an original artwork realized by Gu Yuan in 1947. Original xylograph on watermarked paper. Signed and dated in pencil on the lower right. ...

Les Martyrs Chrétiens is an original artwork realized by Johann Nepomuk Geiger in the beginning of the XIX century. Original xilograph on paper. The sheet i...

Image dimensions: 24 x 29.5 cm. Beautiful xilograph hand-printed on tissue-paper, 1971. Print representing a political public speech. Hand-signed with pencil on lower-right margin. ...

Image dimensions: 30 x 38 cm. "Workers" is an original xilography realized by Giuseppe Viviani in 1926; Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right, and numbered, edition of 111/200 p...

Image dimensions: 25.5 x 27 cm. "Self-Portrait" is an original xilography realized by Giuseppe Viviani in 1925; Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right, and numbered in pencil on t...

La Caricature provisoire – La Caricature, revue morale, judiciaire, littéraire, artistique, fashionable et scénique. 1838-1840. 4 volumes in-4° (37x25.6 cm.) which include 114 numbe...