Utagawa Hiroshige II

Tsukuda Sumiyoshi no Yashiro - Woodcut by Hiroshige II - 1853

1853

Wandering monks in the courtyard of Konoura is an original modern artwork realized by Utagawa Hiroshige II (1826 – 1869) in the 1840s. Good impression with reduced palette mainly in...

Sculptor at work is an artwork realized in the Early 20th Century after Takakane Fujiwara. Sheet dimensions: 30 x 19.5 cm. Reprint. Good conditions.

Amsterdam is an artwork realized by Frans Masereel, 1933. Woodcut print representing Amsterdam. 75 x 55 with frame; 17h x 12 cm each work. Good conditions.

Great Spit-on Bird is an Original woodcut print realized by Sonia Léwitzka. Good condition on acream colored paper. Signature on the lower right corner. On the back of the paper, ...

Signed, lower right, with artist's chop mark in Hiragana, 'Tensen-e' 天泉絵, for Ogyū Tensen 荻生天泉 (Japanese, 1882-1947) A large, early-20th-century, hand-colored Japanese woodblock showing elegantly-robed figures seated beside musical instruments in a panoramic landscape and viewing the full moon through golden clouds. An elegant example composed with clear artistic vision and printed with a consummate mastery of a challenging medium. Nihonga style painter Ogyu Tensen was born in present-day Nihonmatsu City, Fukushima Prefecture. He studied at the Tokyo Fine Arts School, where he was taught by the well-known Kanō school painter Gahō Hashimoto (1835-1908), who was instrumental in the development of nihonga painting. Tensen was selected to participate in the first Bunten exhibition (Ministry of Education Fine Arts Exhibition) in 1907, in which he won an award. He went on to win many other awards at the Bunten exhibitions and the exhibitions of its successor organizations, the Teiten (Imperial Academy of Fine Arts) and Shin Bunten along with exhibitions of the Japan Arts Institute (Nihon Bijutsuin) and the post-war 1946 Nitten (Japan Fine Arts Exhibition). Along with his work in printmaking, the Imperial Court commissioned paintings by him. Tensen was a member of the Futaba kai artist...

“War Chronicles of Osaka” (Osaka gunki no uchi). Okubo Hikozaemon, raising his sword, protects the hidden Tokugawa shogun from the spear of Gorô Matabei Mototsugu in a moonlit fores...

Shichirigahama, Sagami Province. A beauty in the foreground waves to her young companions, who run towards her on the beach. The beauty at left wears a western-style golden ring. We ...

Paris: Sagot, 1889. Wood engraving on cream laid Japon paper with full deckle edges, 8 3/8 x 5 3/4 (212 x 145 mm). Signed, numbered 9/35, and inscribed "1er Etat" in pencil in the l...