Italian Prints

Japanese Woodblock Print by Utagawa Toyokuni I (1769~1852), original and unframed. ABOUT THE ARTIST Utagawa Toyokuni (Japanese: ????; 1769 in Edo – 24...

Le Pho was a Vietnamese painter (1907-20010 who is now internationally known. He painted scenery of Vietnam, still life with flowers, family setting...

Japanese Ukiyoe print by Toyohara Kunichika ( 1835-1900 ) Printed on Meiji 28 (1895) Title: Gishi Meimeiden / Fuwa Kazuemon ( one of the 47 Ronin ) acted by Ichikawa Sadanji . Kunichika studied with Ukiyoe artist Chikanobu from whom he received his artist name . Then under Kunisada and began to produce actor prints...

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

Japanese woodblock print by Utagawa Yoshiika 落合芳幾 (1833-1904), unframed. About the Artist: Yoshiiku was a popular ukiyo-e printmaker during the Meiji period. It is thought that he was the son of a tea house proprietor, hence his particular skill success in the portrayal of various beauties from teahouses and restaurants. Yet, he was an artist comfortable across subject matter and is recognized for his fierce portrayal of famous historical warriors. Yoshiiku was a student of Kuniyoshi and a contemporary rival of the famed Yoshitoshi. He signed his name Utagawa Yoshiiku...

Beautiful vintage framed lithograph of the New York Stock Exchange. This piece is evocative and beautiful. This piece was originally provided...

Antique and very rare Japanese painting made in the early 1900s by a fine Japanese manufacturer. The painting has a rectangular brass frame with rounded corners. Internally we see a...

Tomio Kinoshita (1923 – 2014) Big Boys, 1960 Woodblock print Image size: 32.75 high by 22 inches wide (83 by 56 cm) Paper size: 35.5 high by 23.75 inches wide (90 by 60.3 cm) Signed: in pencil lower right, Tomio Kinoshita Titled: in pencil at lower left Edition: 30/50 Condition: Very good The woodblock for this large print was carved in 1958, just three years after Kinoshita’s began creating woodblocks. This print was signed and dated in 1960, but not numbered; prints were also pulled from this block in the 1970s, so it must have been one of more popular images. One of his students has written, “As time progressed further, the postwar era saw improvements in nutrition, and children became taller and heavier than in the past, but their lack of physical exercise and severely inferior physical abilities became a social problem; this is ironically depicted in Big Boys.” In 1963, Kinoshita told him that he had just finished pulling a print of this image in response to a request from Unichi Hiratsuka...

Contemporary Japanese woodblock print (Sosaku hanga) by the female artist Reika Iwami (b. 1927, Tokyo) titled “Water Fantasy A”of a setting full moon on th...

Various Noh masks. omocha-e" (toy prints for children to cut out and play. Collecting toy prints became quite popular in Japan recently. Although the printing quality and paper quali...

Perrier New York City Marathon Poster, 1979, published 1978 by Great Waters of France, Inc. Provenance: From a New York City collection. Dealer: S138XX

This vintage poster from the 1930s features a fashionably dressed young mother posing with her son and daughter. The poster may have been given as a gift for the Chinese New Year, as...