Japanese Print "Horses in Pasture" by Hanjiro
Artist:Hanjiro
Title:Horses in Pasture
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Monday, 21 February 2011 Help Title Horses in Pasture - Five Views of Aso Artist Hanjiro Sakamoto 1882-1969 Seal Artist's seal (Sakamoto) Dated 1950. Medium/Technique Woodblock print. Impression Very good … embossed. Colors Very good. Condition Good … light toning, a tear (1/2 inch long) on the middle of the right margin, lower right area creased, two nicks on the edge of the left margin. Description "Five Views of Aso: Pasture" "Houboku" Semi-abstract horses graze on the pasture at Mt. Aso. Hanjiro was a Western style painter who was renouned for his highly reduced-to-essense forms of horses. Here, his simplified colors and forms of horses blend in the surrounding rolling hills and the sky. Width Item 15.0 inches = 38.0 cm Height Item 10.6 inches = 27.0 cm Literature Merritt, Helen, "Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints; The Early Years", University of Hawaii press, 1990, - pg.101
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