Artist: Nishizawa Shizuo
Title: Shizuka Gozen - Bunraku Puppet
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Thursday, 25 August 2005 Title Shizuka Gozen - Bunraku Puppet limited edition Artist Shizuo Nishizawa 1912-1997 Signature "S. Nishisawa", edition number and title in pencil on the lower margin Dated 1985 Technique/Medium Intaglio Impression excellent … printed on a thick laid paper Colors excellent Condition excellent - very good … margins slightly soiled. Edition Size 30 Numbered 5 / 30 Description Portrait of the bunraku puppet "Shizuka Gozen". Shizuo Nishisawa was famous for his exquisite and highly skilled intaglio, colored-etching works especially the ones depicting Bunraku puppets. In 1983, the Nobel Prize Foundation in Sweden asked Nishizawa to make a print in commemoration of the first Japanese Nobel laureat for literature, Kawabata Yasunari. Width 14.4 inches = 36.5 cm Height 18.7 inches = 47.5 cm Width of Image 7.7 inches = 19.5 cm Height of Image 10.4 inches = 26.5 cm Note The image was taken from the original print, but does not show full margins.
