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Published by The S. Watanabe Color Print Co.
Contemplating the Coming Spring
Shinsui, Ito, 1898-1972
Contemplating the Coming Spring- Artist : Shinsui, Ito, 1898-1972
- Series : Twelve Figures of Modern Beauties
- Edition : 92/150
- Date : 1923
- Medium : woodblock
- Item# : FWG0058
- Condition : Faint tape residue at reverse top and bottom margins
- Image size : 16 x 9 1/2 inches
- Illustrated : Shinsui, pl. 43
- Comments : Published by The S. Watanabe Color Print Co.
- SOLD
About The Artist
Shinsui, Ito, 1898-1972Born in Tokyo. Original name Ito Hajime. Started working in drawing department of a Tokyo printing company at age 12; then studied with Kaburagi Kiyokata. Well known as Japanese-style painter; exhibited at Bunten, Teiten, and Nitten. Discovered by Watanabe Shozaburo in 1916; Watanabe and Shinsui collaborated for 25 years; Watanabe exported hundreds of Shinsui prints. Shinsui's landscape series Eight Views of Lake Biwa (Omi Hakkei), 1917-1918, inspired Kawase Hasui, another prolific collabor.....
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Contemplating the Coming Spring
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Published by The S. Watanabe Color Print Co.
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