Yumeji Takehisa: Beauty and Tree Woodblock NR
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Japanese Woodblock Print, late Showa era, published by Kato Junji
SIZE IN INCHES: koban, 5 x 7.5 inches
TAKEHISA YUMEJI (1884-1934), was a leading figure in the Taisho Romanticism movement which combined Western romanticism with native Japanese styles during the Taisho Period (1912-1926). He was a painter, writer, poet, bookbinder and illustrator whose drawings of women with thin bodies and large eyes filled with melancholy were known as Yumeji Bijin-ga. During the height of his popularity he was called the "modern Utamaro" and the Japanese "Toulouse-Lautrec and Edvard Munch". His prints epitomized the relationship between popular art and the woodblock. Yumeji is the printmaker who best exemplifies the Taisho era.
SIZE IN INCHES: koban, 5 x 7.5 inches
TAKEHISA YUMEJI (1884-1934), was a leading figure in the Taisho Romanticism movement which combined Western romanticism with native Japanese styles during the Taisho Period (1912-1926). He was a painter, writer, poet, bookbinder and illustrator whose drawings of women with thin bodies and large eyes filled with melancholy were known as Yumeji Bijin-ga. During the height of his popularity he was called the "modern Utamaro" and the Japanese "Toulouse-Lautrec and Edvard Munch". His prints epitomized the relationship between popular art and the woodblock. Yumeji is the printmaker who best exemplifies the Taisho era.
Condition
Fine, no flaws
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Yumeji Takehisa: Beauty and Tree Woodblock NR
Estimate $70 - $100
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