2 — 13 April 2025

Katsunori HAMANISHI (b.1949, Japan)

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Images of the Floating World and from the Modern era

2 — 13 April 2025

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Cat 44: Katsunori HAMANISHI (b.1949, Japan)

One of the world’s acknowledged masters of the most demanding of all printing techniques, the mezzotint. His work is represented in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The British Museum, Hokkaido Museum of Art, Japan, The Art Institute of Chicago, Cleveland Museum of Art, The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

Situation # 24, 1988

original mezzotint print, Ed. 8/50

60 x 45 cm

$ 2500 framed

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Cat 45: Katsunori HAMANISHI (b.1949, Japan)

Division – Work No. 42

original mezzotint print, Ed. 43/50

74.5 x 53.3 cm

$ 2750 framed

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Cat 46: Katsunori HAMANISHI (b.1949, Japan)

Division – Work No. 71

original mezzotint print, Ed. 18/50

34.5 x 45 cm

Published 1997

$ 1750 framed

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Cat 47: Katsunori HAMANISHI (b.1949, Japan)

Waterlilies

Ex libris for the library of Y.Ochiai

Not dated

13 x 11.5cm

$ 495 framed

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Cat 48: Katsunori HAMANISHI (b.1949, Japan)

Fish netsuke

Ex libris

01/2017

13 x 11.5cm

$ 495 framed

SOLD

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Cat 49: Shigeki KURODA (b. 1953)

Using fast moving bicycles ridden by seemingly only umbrellas, Kuroda is famous for his depictions of the rapid movement of life in modern Tokyo.

Time Navigation c.2010

etching & aquatint

Ed. 34/70

28 x 46 cm

$ 1750

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Cat 50: Shigeki KURODA (b. 1953)

Time Difference c.2016

etching & aquatint

Ed. 3/30

43 x 52.5 cm

$ 1500

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Cat 51: Shigeki KURODA (b. 1953)

Deep Impact c.2014

etching & aquatint

Ed. 26/30

49.5 x 63 cm

$ 1750

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Cat 52: Torii KIYONAGA (1752 – 1815)

SHUNGA

Japanese Shunga (Spring Pictures) are now recognised as an uninhibited celebration of sexual pleasure. and one of the greatest evocations of sensual pleasure in world art.

At the age of 13, Kiyonga went to Edo to become the pupil of Torii Kiyomitsu. Adopted into the Torii family he was the last major artist of that school. During the 1780s, his tall, graceful figures in complex settings dominated the ukiyo-e style. He gave up designing prints about 1790 and continued to paint until his death.

Young lovers next to an open book.

Published ca. 1785, possibly as a follow up to Kiyonaga’s most famous series, shikido juniban (Twelve Ways of Making Love.)

Album page, 25.5 x 38.50 cm

$1500

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Cat 53: Torii KIYONAGA (1752 – 1815)

Young lovers next to a pipe and sake bowl

Published ca. 1785, possibly as a follow up to Kiyonaga’s most famous series, shikido juniban (Twelve Ways of Making Love.)

Album page, 25.5 x 38.50cm

$ 1500

SOLD

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Cat 54: Chikyosei EIRI (active 1795 – 1800)

Living in Edo, Eiri designed prints around the turn of the 19th century. Both a ukiyo-e printmaker and painter, this pupil of Eishi Hosoda produced elegant bijin-ga (pictures of beautiful women) and portraits. The tall, slender women portrayed in Eiri's work echo those of his teacher, while his bust portraits suggest the influence of Utamaro

Lovers next to a screen depicting cherry blossom

Album page, published ca 1785

25.5 x 38.50 cm

$1600

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