Chokosai Eisho

The Courtesan Midorigi

1795-6

Beauty Otami - Kabuki Note: Kabuki actor Nakamura Matsue is in the role of courtesan otami. She is standing in front of a small tea shop in a garden. Color woodblock, c. 1800-1810 Si...

Portrait de Paul Gauguin Woodcut, c. 1900 Initialed in pencil lower right Numbered in pencil lower left Edition: 100 (34/100) Annotated verso: “epreuve sur japon” Condition: Excellent Image size: 6 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches Sheet size: 11 x 8 5/8 inches Note: Born in New York, Monfreid studied in France at the Academy Julian. He was a friend of Gauiguin, Verlaine and Maillol. He formed a noted collection of works by Gauguin. In 1924, Monfreid published the manuscript for Paul Gauguin’s Noa Noa with 24 woodcuts inspired by Gauguin...

Louis I of France as a Roman Emperor, in profile to the right Chiaroscuro woodcut, 1631-1633 Unsigned (as usual) After a drawing by Hubert Goltzius (1526-1583)...

Berenice Color woodcut, 1900-1910 Signed with the artist's red ink stamp (see photo) Edition: 50 (46/50) Signed with the artist's red ink initials stamp, Lugt 1771, Sup. Condition: E...

Chiaroscuro woodcut on cream laid paper, printed from three blocks in black, olive-green, and yellow ochre, 8 3/16 x 6 1/4 inches (207 x 157 mm), thread margins. Some scattered light discoloration throughout, lightly backed with laid paper, however the sheet retains translucence when viewed through raking light. Trimmed at or near the margin. Archivally sound small repaired corner tear, upper right, with a very minor (1/4 inch) vertical edge split in the center top margin, above the figure's head. All condition issues are consistent with age, and present an exceptionally good example of this truly remarkable work. With the collector's stamp of Friedrich August II, King of Saxony, last King of Poland (1797-1854), Dresden, on the right corner, recto (Lugt 971). This work likely appeared in a well-known posthumous sale of Friedrich August II's private collection, which was handled by C.G. Boerner, and took place in Leipzig, on May 7-9, 1928, presumably this print was presented as lot 1551. [Stechow 16] Ludolph Busïnck was born at Hann, Germany around 1590. By about 1620 he was actively working as a printmaker in Paris, collaborating with publisher and celebrated cartographer Melchoir Tavernier. Busïnck may have studied printmaking in the Netherlands, evidenced by the influence of Dutch printmaker Hendrick Goltzius we see in the bold woodcuts he produced in France. Busïnck was the first printmaker to create chiaroscuro woodcuts in France, a technique originated by German artist Hans Burgkmair...

Chiaroscuro woodcut on cream laid paper with a partial anchor in a circle watermark, printed from two blocks in black and olive-green, 10 3/4 x 8 3...

A mischievous tableau with sexual overtones. Tokyo: Shuei-Sha, 1768. Woodblock print in colors printed on laid mulberry paper, 10 3/4 x 7 7/8 inches (273 x 200 mm), full margins. I...

A lovely chiaroscuro woodcut by Antonio Maria Zanetti the elder after a work by Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola). Printed on cream laid paper, laid down to a cream lai...