Keshin (Incarnation (Moku)
Color woodcut, 1958
Signed and dated lower left in pencil (see photo)
An impression is in the collectionof the Asian Art Museum, No. 2012.93, which is not a richly inked s this impression.
Another impression is in the National Museum of Art, Smithsonian, accession no. S2019.3.1297
A third impression is in the collectionof the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
This appears to be the best and most colorful impression of the museum holdings.
The image is thought to depict a flying crame
Condition: Wrinkles to large sheet of handmade paper. Not objectionable.
Image size: 29 15/16 x 21 1/4 inches
Sheet size: 37 3/8 x 27 1/4 inches
Reference: Tadashi Nakiyama Life & Work, Plate F
Tadashi Nakayama - Sosaku hanga artist Tadashi Nakayama initially studied oil painting at Tama Art College, but began creating woodblock prints in 1951. In the 1960s, he traveled to Turkey, Greece, England, and Italy, absorbing influences from Persian and Byzantine art and the renaissance master Paolo Ucello. Throughout his long career, his subjects have included flowers, butterflies, women, and perhaps most famously, horses...
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1950s Abstract Martin Noel Art