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Kuniyoshi and Kunisada: Rivals

October 2, 2017Heather

Nozarashi Gosuke, from the series Men of Ready Money with True Labels Attached, Kuniyoshi Fashion, about 1845, Utagawa Kuniyoshi

In the 1970s and early 1980s, Sotheby’s in New York and the auction houses in the UK and in Europe sold mostly late Utagawa School prints by Kuniyoshi (excluding his early works), Kunisada I aka Toyokuni III, Kunisada II and… Continue reading →

20th Century Japanese Prints

August 31, 2017Heather

Tipsy, from the series Modern Styles of Women by Kobayakawa Kiyoshi, 1930, colour woodblock print with mica, Saint Louis Art Museum, The Langenberg Endowment Fund

This show follows The Saint Louis Art Museum’s highly successful print exhibition, Conflicts of Interest: Art and War in Modern Japan that was reviewed in Asian Art Newspaper October 2016. Now, The Saint Louis Art Museum it is continuing its… Continue reading →

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