Our next auction, with 140 lots of modern and contemporary Japanese prints and paintings is on Saturday, September 12. Live bidding begins at 11:00 Chicago time, and absentee bidding is open now.
This sale is exclusively on the LiveAuctioneers.com platform.
Our New Year’s Resolution for 2020: Have a continuous offering of 20 prints and paintings, with at a 20% discount, during 2020. We made this New Year’s resolution pre-Covid, when we weren’t having auctions almost monthly. We will keep some prints discounted 20% in this exhibition, but may not always be at 20 prints.
We are still have space in our November Ukiyo-e & Meiji Auction in November and our Holiday No Reserve Auction in December, so if you have prints you would like us to consider for either sale, please let us know by using the link above or emailing us at auctions@floatingworld.com
Explore our inventory of hundreds of items ranging from Edo Period woodblocks to contemporary abstraction.
Our team has a combined 60 years of experience in the field. We’re the experts other experts trust. Feel free to contact us for a complimentary evaluation of your artwork.
Contemporary Auction – September 12
Shin Hanga Auction – October 17
Ukiyo-e & Meiji Auction – November 7
Holiday No Reserve Auction – December date TBD
Email us at auctions@floatingworld.com if you have prints that you would like us to consider for inclusion.
Floating World Gallery is one of the world’s leading galleries in fine Japanese art. Since 1987 we have supplied the finest prints and paintings to notable private collectors and public institutions. We have direct relationships with artists, their families and estates as well as a dense network of contacts that make us the leading gallery in sourcing material. In fact, we are the leading supplier of artwork to other dealers. Please contact us if you don’t see what you’re looking for in our diverse online catalog – chances are we can find it for you.
Our Japanese art catalog includes works from all genres – Ukiyo-e, Meiji, Shin Hanga, Sosaku Hanga and Contemporary, as well as a selection of Western artists who worked in Japan or otherwise follow Japanese print making techniques. Some of the artists we have (or have had) include Azechi, Hasui, Hamaguchi, Harunobu, Hashimoto, Hiroaki, Hiroshige, Hokusai, Hoshi, Inagaki, Kiyokata, Kogan, Koitsu, Koizumi, Koson, Kotondo, Kunisada, Kuniyoshi, Maki, Mori, Munakata, Nakayama, Onchi, Saito, Sekino, Shinshui, Shiro, Shoson, Shunsen, Teraoka, Toraji, Toyokuni III, Tsunetomi, Watanabe, Yamaguchi, Yoshida and many more woodblock print and painting artists.