Houston - Interior Prints

Modern naturalistic earth toned still life etching and aquatint by New York based artist Stephen Lorber. The work features a carefully crafted still lif...

Abstract pink, green, and white serigraph of a Spanish outdoor architectural landscape with men and horses titled "Bull Ring - Madrid" by Stella Sullivan. Ti...

Abstract pink, green, and white serigraph of a Spanish outdoor architectural landscape titled "A Loggia" by Stella Sullivan. The Italian word for...

An original mezzotint by Tomoe Yokoi of a naturalistic pear in a white wrapper against a black background. While simple in style, the subtle shadowing bring the scene to life. Titled...

Impressionist interior still life scene with grey and orange tones. The work is stamped by the artist and dated. The work is framed in a silver frame with an orange matte. The title ...

Intricate Japanese woodblock print triptych of a sumo match between the wrestlers Inazuma and Abumatsu in the the dohyo, or sumo ring, by the popular artist Utagawa Kunisada in the 1840's. Artist Biography: Kunisada was born in 1786 in Honjo, an eastern district of Edo. His given name was Sumida Shōgorō, and he was also called Sumida Shōzō. While growing up, he developed an early talent for painting and drawing. His early sketches at that time impressed Toyokuni, the great master of the Utagawa school and prominent designer of kabuki and actor-portrait prints. In the year 1800 or shortly thereafter Kunisada was accepted by Toyokuni I as an apprentice in his workshop. In keeping with a tradition of Japanese master-apprentice relations, he was then given the official artist name of "KUNI-sada", the first character of which was derived from the second part of the name "Toyo-KUNI". Almost from the first day of his activity, and even at the time of his death in 1865, Kunisada was a trendsetter in the art of the Japanese woodblock print. About 14,500 individual designs have been catalogued (polyptych sets counted as a single design) corresponding to more than 22,500 individual sheets. It seems probable based on these figures that Kunisada actually produced between 20,000 and 25,000 designs for woodblock prints during his lifetime (i.e. 35,000 to 40,000 individual sheets). Following the traditional pattern of the Utagawa school, Kunisada's main occupation was kabuki and actor prints, and about 60% of his designs fall in this category. From 1820 to 1860 he likewise dominated the market for portraits of sumo wrestlers...

Kiyoshi Saitō (1907 – 1997) Title Not Known, signature and seal lower right. Modern, interior Japanese print featuring dark tones with a splash of neon green. Mat board covers the margins which may have date, title and edition. Visible area: H 20 in. x W 14.625 in. Artist Biography: Kiyoshi Saito was born in Fukushima prefecture in 1907. At the age of five he moved to Otaru in Hokkaido, where he would come to serve as an apprentice to a sign painter. Saito became infatuated with art after studying drawing with Gyokusen Narita and moved to Tokyo in 1932 to study Western-style painting at the Hongo Painting Institute. He began experimenting with woodblock prints and exhibiting his works with Nihon Hanga Kyokai in 1936. Saito mainly worked in oil painting until his invitation from Tadashige Ono...

Japanese print with neutral tones. Signature and seal lower right. Mat board covers the margins which may have the title, date and the number of the edition. Visible: H 15.75 in. x W 22 in. Artist Biography: Kiyoshi Saito was born in Fukushima prefecture in 1907. At the age of five he moved to Otaru in Hokkaido, where he would come to serve as an apprentice to a sign painter. Saito became infatuated with art after studying drawing with Gyokusen Narita and moved to Tokyo in 1932 to study Western-style painting at the Hongo Painting Institute. He began experimenting with woodblock prints and exhibiting his works with Nihon Hanga Kyokai in 1936. Saito mainly worked in oil painting until his invitation from Tadashige Ono...

Modern interior woodcut print of a Japanese style home. Kiyoshi Saitō (1907 – 1997) Katsura – Kyoto (H) 1962, signature and seal lower left. Mat board covers the margins which may have the title, date and the number of the edition. Visible Area: H 15 in. x W 20.5 in. Artist Biography: Kiyoshi Saito was born in Fukushima prefecture in 1907. At the age of five he moved to Otaru in Hokkaido, where he would come to serve as an apprentice to a sign painter. Saito became infatuated with art after studying drawing with Gyokusen Narita and moved to Tokyo in 1932 to study Western-style painting at the Hongo Painting Institute. He began experimenting with woodblock prints and exhibiting his works with Nihon Hanga Kyokai in 1936. Saito mainly worked in oil painting until his invitation from Tadashige Ono...

Architectural engraving from the "Recueil et Parallèle des Edifices," depicting British palaces and estates, by Jean-Nicholas-Louis Durand (1760-1834), 1800. An important figure in N...

Architectural engraving from the "Recueil et Parallèle des Edifices," depicting floor plan of Roman baths by Jean-Nicholas-Louis Durand (1760-1...

Antique copper engraving depicting Mosques and Pagodas for the Recueil des Edifices by Durand, circa 1800. Historically important comparative study of buildings using a single scale....