Paper Prints

A beautifully composed woodblock print by famed Japanese Sosaku Hanga printmaker Kiyoshi Saito. Many consider Saito to be one of the most important, if not the most important, contem...

Japanese Woodblock Triptych Scene Of A Kabuki Theatrical Performance Toyohara Kunichika (1835 - 1900) Framed, each woodblock print: 23 ...

An antique Japanese woodblock print from the 19th century depicting monks having tea. Created in Japan during the 19th century, this woodblock print showcases an indoor scene featuri...

Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 - 1858) Series: Pictures of Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces Number: 44 Oki Province: Takuhi Shrine Medium: Woodblock Print Date: 1853 (Kaei 6), 12th month Number of Prints: 70/70 (inc. Title Page) Format: Vertical Oban Size (H x W): 14" x 9.25" print only. Publisher: Koshimuraya Heisuke (Koshihei) Blockcutter's mark: Hori Ko-Sen Signature: Hiroshige hitsu Additional marks: Censor's seals: aratame, Ox 12 Displayed with mat and gilt wood frame. Reference: For an identical print, see the collection of MIA (Minneapolis Institute of Art) Accession Number P.75.51.398; MFA...

Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 - 1858) Series: The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Upright) Number: 6 Totsuka: View of Fuji from the Mountain Road (Totsuka, Sando yori Fuji chobo) Medium: Woodblock Print Date: 1855 Format: Vertical Oban Size (H x W): 14" x 9.25" print only. Publisher: Tsutaya Kichizo Seals: Aratame and date Signature: Hiroshige hitsu...

This exceptional, limited edition woodblock print of a once well-known Sumo wrestler is pencil signed, sealed in red, titled (Kitanoumi in Dohyo-iri), dated (1978) and numbered (62/128) by Japanese master printmaker Junichiro Sekino. A rare and relatively hard-to-find print. Junichiro Sekino was largely considered, along with Kiyoshi Saito, to be one of Japan's paramount 20th-century master print artists. Both were prominent leaders of the Sosaku Hanga movement. Sekino's works can be found in many museums including: The Museum of Modern Art, N. Y., the Art Institute Chicago, the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, the British Museum, and the Portland Art Museum among many other fine museums throughout the world. This listing is for print only (no frame). Would be a fantastic addition to any modern Japanese print...

By Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950). Original trimmed print 1930. Titled: Harbor of Tomonoura Series: Seto Inland Sea 9.5"H x 14.5"W Hiroshi seal Signed: Hiroshi Yoshida (in pencil) Con...

A silk parchment scroll with a Camellia Flower painting, by Japanese artist Matsumura Keibun (1779-1843). The younger half-brother to Matsumura Goshun, founder of the Shijo schoo...

Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 - 1858) Series: Pictures of Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces Number: 45 Harima: Maiko Beach Medium: Woodblock Print Date: 1853 (Kaei 6), 12th ...

Vintage Helen Siegl (1924 - 2009) "Piggy Back" 1950s Woodcut Print Framed Mid Century Art. Circa Mid 20th Century. Measurements: (Frame) 23" H x 14" W x 1" D. (Art work) 17.5" H x 9" W.

A set of eight Japanese Meiji era woodblock prints Japanese, Late 19th century Measures: Frames: small: height 50cm, width 37cm, depth 1.5cm - prints 35 x 24 Large: height 52cm, w...

A gorgeous and beautifully textured mezzotint print in the style of fellow Japanese artists Wako Ito, Hamanishi Katsunori, Tomoe Yokoi, Kaoru Saito, and Yozo Hamaguchi. The print is pencil signed (Noriko?), titled ("Crab Apple...

Hagiwara Hideo [Fish] Woodblock print, framed Print size: 445 (W) x 325 (H) [mm] Framed: 660 (W) x 470 (H) [mm] Hagiwara Hideo is an oil painter, but ...

This calendar advertisement poster for White Horse cigarettes was produced by Hu Boxiang, a famous commercial advertising artist in Shanghai during the 1920s-1930s. Framed in a highly ornate floral border, a fashionable woman poses while gathering plum blossoms, emblems of winter and eternal beauty. Dressed in a traditional qipao but with Western hairstyle and accessories, the woman reflects the rising influence of Western advertising and the Art Deco movement during the economic boom of early 20th century Shanghai. Beneath this scene is a calendar for the year 1936, surrounded by packs of prominent cigarette brands...

A wonderfully composed and colored, limited edition woodblock print by famed Japanese artist Junichiro Sekino This print, which is titled "Mr. Ozek's Daughter", is pencil signed, sealed in red, dated (1966), and numbered (5/100) by the master printmaker. A beautiful snapshot of a child and her favorite doll, an ever-trusted companion. Notice how the doll holds her hand in a protective gesture. Junichiro Sekino was largely considered, along with Kiyoshi Saito, to be one of Japan's paramount 20th century master print artists. Both were prominent leaders of the Sosaku Hanga movement. Sekino's works can be found in many museums including: The Museum of Modern Art, N. Y., the Art Institute Chicago, the Museum of fine Art, Boston, the British Museum, and the Portland Art Museum among many other fine museums throughout the world. This listing is for print only (no frame). Would be a fantastic addition to any modern Japanese print...

Early 20th century Japanese woodblock print depicting courtesans, After Kitagawa Utamaro C.1920 Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese,...

Collection of abstract Japanese calligraphy prints, possibly after Sofu Teshigahara, Japan, circa 1970s. These were from a collection that we purchase...

Picasso (1883-1973) Title: Le Oiseau Size: 17 inches x 12 inches Medium: Lithograph Publisher: Mourlot, Paris Printer: Mourlot, Paris Year: 1973 Edition: 150, this is example ...

This 1930s advertising poster for the Gold Bar Cigarettes company draws from a well known Chinese opera scene. It melds the meticulous detail of trad...

Pair of large Meiji Era Japanese woodblock prints Japanese, Late 19th Century Frames: height 42.5cm, width 78.5cm, depth 2cm Prints: height 35cm, width 78.5cm These excellent w...

L'ABCdaire de la calligraphie arabe (ABCDAIRES) (French Edition) Paperback – May 16, 2002 French Edition by Massoudy Hassan (Author) The basics of Arabic calligraphy paperback - may 21, 2002 by Hassan Massoudy...

A Chinese Qing Dynasty period print from the 19th century, depicting birds in a tree on turquoise ground, with custom frame. Created in China during the Qing Dynasty period, this lar...

A beautifully and serenely composed image by renowned Japanese artist/printmaker Shoda Koho (1871-1946). This work titled "Starry Night on Lake Biwa (Sometimes known as "Lake Biwa")...

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japan, 1798-1861), a set of nine Japanese woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) from the series 'Taiheiki Eiyuden', or 'Heroes of the Great Peace' published between 1846-1847...

This vintage poster for Double Crane cigarettes from the 1930s melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the Craft of color lithography. These advertisement ...

This is an early 20th Century poster from the art deco period. This vintage poster melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the Craft of color lithography. ...

Antique Japanese small table top four panel folding screen. Wood block print on paper. First quarter 20th century. Perfect to use as wall art.

A Japanese Woodblock print by Paul Jacoulet (French, 1896-1960) entitled "Les Perles Mandchoukuo" (The Pearls, Manchuria). Published in 1950, this fine print is considered the most technically complex piece among all Jacoulet's work. Over 300 individual impressions of nearly 60 double-sided carved woodblocks were used to create this image. It depicts a Chinese lady in full traditional Qing Dynasty clothing...

This advertising poster from the 1930s for a Japanese company operating in China melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the ...

Antique Chinese rice paper pith painting. It shows a group gathering of men and women. Pith paper is made from the inner pith of the plant Tetrapane...

A wonderful image of a rural Japanese landscape scene by famed Japanese artist Ryohei Tanaka featuring two thatched roof houses and freshly blooming cherry blossom trees in Spring. ...

Influenced by Western advertising, commercial posters featuring beautiful women in modern settings gained popularity in China in the 1920s and 1930s. Commercial companies presented posters, like this one, to their clients for Chinese New Year. This poster depicts a woman luxuriously dressed in a western style fur-trimmed coat holding a purse that also indicates Art Deco influences. This brand of Chinese advertisement draws on the classic American advertisements...

Antique print, titled: 'Reichenbachia - Tab 47 - Cattleya amethystoglossa.' - Gorgeous / impressive large folio size antique print of the Orchid: Cattleya amethystoglossa, amethy...

A wonderful Japanese woodblock print by famed Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige (Ando Hiroshige) (1797-1858) tilted No. 51 - Minakuchi, from the series The Tôkaidô Road - The Fifty-t...

Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 - 1858) Series: Pictures of Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces Number: 5: Settsu Province: Sumiyoshi, Idemi Beach Medium: Woodblock Print Date: 1853 (Kaei 6), 7th month Number of Prints: 70/70 (inc. Title Page) Format: Vertical Oban Size (H x W): 14" x 9.25" print only. Publisher: Koshimuraya Heisuke (Koshihei) Block Cutter: Yokokawa Takejirô (Hori Take) Signature: Hiroshige hitsu Additional marks: Censors' seals: Mera, Watanabe, Ox 7 Displayed with mat and gilt wood frame. Reference: For an identical print, see the collection of MFA Boston...

This Meiji-period color woodblock by Toyohara Chikanobu (1838-1912) depicts three elegant female courtiers in traditional dress taking refreshments. Th...

Fabulous signed print by Peter Max. Framed, autographed. Signed

This commercial advertisement poster from 1930s Shanghai melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the craft of color lithography. Large companies often presen...

A beautiful and brightly colored woodblock print by famed Japanese artist and Shin-Hanga master printmaker Kawase Hasui. This print, titled "Shinagawa" is from his series Selection o...

Antique Japanese Woodblock Print by Keisai Eisen 渓斎 英泉 (1790~1848), original and framed. Dimension: with frame, 18.5" x 23.75" without frame, 10.5" x 14...

Print Toyohara Chikanobu Japan Woodcut 1880

Print Toyohara Chikanobu Japan Woodcut 1880

Rare original framed woodblock print by Shiro Kasamatsu 笠松紫浪. Large lantern of Asakusa Kannon-do. 浅草観音堂大提灯 Woodblock print. Publisher: Watanabe Woodblock Print Shop, Ginza, Tokyo. 版...

Print Toyohara Chikanobu Japan Woodcut 1880

Original Exhibition Poster – Quarta Exposició del Círcol de Sant Lluch, Alexandre de Riquer, 1969 Details: Exhibition: Quarta Exposició del Círcol de Sant Lluch Artist: Alexandre d...

A wonderful Mingei woodblock print titled "Shaka No Saku (Sakyamuni)" is by famed Japanese master Showa era printmaker/ artist Shiko (Shikou) Munakata (棟方志功 ) who was widely consider...

This vintage poster for Hatamen cigarettes from the 1930s melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the Craft of color lithography. These advertisement poste...

This is an early 20th Century poster from the art deco period. This vintage poster melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the Craft of color lithography. ...

Signed and sealed “Winter in Aizu with Skiers” woodblock print by renowned Japanese woodblock artist Kiyoshi Saito, from the “Winter in Aizu” series, c. 1960. The print has been matt...

Original Exhibition Poster – Obra de 1935 a 1965 by Francesc Serra, Sala Gaspar, 1965 Description: Original exhibition poster for Obra de 1935 a 1965 by Catalan artist Francesc Serr...

Original Poster – Joan Claret, Sala Gaspar, 1972 Description: Details: Artist: Joan Claret Exhibition: Sala Gaspar, Barcelona Year: 1972 Dimensions: 75 x 55.5 cm Condition: Go...

Japanese Woodblock Print by Eizan Kikugawa,???? (1787~1867) ABOUT THE ARTIST A native of Edo, Eizan Kikugawa was born as Toshinobu Omiya in 1787. He began his artistic career s...

A Japanese Woodblock print by Paul Jacoulet (French, 1896-1960) entitled La Lettre Du Fils, Seoul, Coree (The Son's Letter). Created in 1938, this print was carved by Maeda and print...

Chinese ink rubbing printing depicting Panthaka Arhat, no.4 of the 16 arhat images immortalized in stone at the former stupa at Shengyin Temple. Depicted here sitting on a rock with a book in his left hand and snapping his fingers in his right hand, symbolic of the speed at which he obtained enlightenment, accompanied by a beggar’s bowl and an incense burner, complete with colophons and silk scroll mounting. The Emperor Qianlong ordered the stone stele to be carved in 1764 after the arhat designs painted by the famed artist Guanxiu (832-912). Even though the temple was destroyed in the Taiping rebellion, the steles remain and have been reinstalled at the Hangzhou Stele Forest. Condition: Creases from rolling, otherwise fine condition. Mounting: 58” x 22”. 19th Century. Ex Collection: Frank “Till” & Peggy Durdin, San Diego. For other rubbings of this stele see: Penn Museum, object number 2010-26-4 The Metropolitan Museum of Art AN#: 59.195.15 Fine Arts Library of Harvard University, record id: W280021_urn-3:FHCL:478850 For another example of this image rendered in jade and lacquer see: “Screen Paintings of Guanxiu’s Sixteen Arhats in the Collection of the Palace Museum” Luo Wehhua translated by Bruce Doar, Orientations, September 2010, p. 104. In this article the image is identified as the sixteenth arhat Abheda, It is explained in this article that Qianlong re-identified the arhats, thus the 16th Arhat attribution for this image. Also in this article the identical colophon by Qianlong above the image is translated as: “These accurate portraits of the Sixteen Arhats were created by the Tang Dynasty painter Guanxiu, as recorded in Xuanhe Huapu (Record of paintings in the Xuanhe Reign), and during the millennium from the Guangming reign period to the present day, the original works were to be found in Zhejiang, where they were housed in the collection of Shengyin Temple in Qiantang (Huangzhou). In spring of the dingchou year (1757) of his reign, the Qianlong emperor undertook a southern tour of inspection and stayed at an imperial lodge on the West Lake. He went to the temple to pay his respects and there he saw the arhats on display and wrote a description of these marvels. The sequence of the arhats and their names had been passed down since ancient times, but they did not correspond to their Sanskrit titles; the sequence of the arhat names conformed instead to the interpretation of the Sanskrit classics by the Zhangjia State Preceptor. The emperor penned the original names and positions in the sequence below each of the figures in accordance with the readings supplied in Tongwen Yuntong (Unified Rhymes), and below each he penned an encomium, which he signed. Then the images were returned to the collection, to be passed down as a perpetual treasure. Now, the fourth great arhat had long gone missing and we did not know where his painting was. But it was merely a trifling matter of matching the images with the names, and now surely we have found him! This I, the emperor, believe.” All 16 of these rubbings can be found in the Rubel Chinese Rubbings Collection at the Fine Arts Library of Harvard University with the following descriptive historical note: “Rubbing from stele depicting No. 4 of 16 arhats (Lohans, Buddhist saints) -- Nan ti mi duo luo qing you, Panthaka Arhat. Original painting attributed to Guanxiu, 832-912. Inscriptions written by Hongli, Emperor Qianlong (Gaozong, 1711-1799) of Qing Dynasty. 7 seals of Qianlong follow the inscriptions. Script style: in xing shu. Shi liu zun zhe -- "The 16 noble ones" are 16 lohans. Lohans are also called "a-lo-han" based on the transliteration of the Sanskrit term "arhat." (Japanese: Rakan; Chinese: Lohan; Tibetan: Gnas-brtan). Arhats or Arahants are saints or sages said to have renounced nirvana (freedom from the cycle of suffering and rebirth), vowed to remain in the world to protect the Dharma and propagate the Law of the Buddha in order to devote themselves more effectively to the relief of human misery, like the Bodhisattvas. These 16 Arhats, personal disciples distinguished by the Buddha, formed part of the 500 claimed by tradition to have attended the First Council in Rajagrha. The names and abodes of these 16 arhats are given in a work entitled "Record on the Duration of the Law, spoken by the Great arhat Nadimitra," which was translated into Chinese by the famous pilgrim Xuanzang (596-664) in 654. 16 lohans are quite often represented, especially in China and Japan, in sculpture and painting, in poses and with attributes. Every lohan can be easily with special icongraphic characteristics. Guanxiu (Jiang Deyin or Deyuan, a Buddhist monk also named Master Chan Yue, 832-912) -- painter during late Tang to Five Dynasties, specialized in painting lohan figures. Legend has it that the first portraits of the 18 Lohans...

Lithography by Henri Rivière, Parisian Landscapes - The Institute and the City This lithography, "Parisian Landscapes - The Institute and the City," is signed Henri Rivière and bea...

A wonderfully composed and quite engaging woodblock print by renowned Japanese artist/printmaker Shiro Karamatsu (笠松 紫浪, 1898-1991) titled "Three-Headed Deity In Ashura Temple" featu...

Original Japanese Woodblock print by Hokusai Katsushika, ???? '1760-1849' Color woodblock print on paper by Katsushika Hokusai, 1760 to 1849, a Jap...

Paul Jacoulet, France/Japan. La Lettre du Fils, Seoul, Corée. Original colored woodblock. Framed under glass. Overall: 16.5 x 21 in. paper size: 14.5" x 18.5" .