Ohara Koson, Flycatchers On Snow-Covered Nandina, woodblock print, 1929.
Signed Shoson in the image, lower left with the artist’s red seal Shoson beneath the signature.
Image size 14 1/4 x 9 1/2 (362 x 241 mm); sheet size: 15 1/4 x 10 5/16 inches (387 x 262 mm)
A superb, richly-inked impression, with fresh, vibrant colors and crisp embossing, on cream wove Japanese paper; the full sheet with margins, in excellent condition. The publisher’s 6 mm seal in the lower left image corner indicating an impression printed between 1946-1957. Published by Watanabe.
Literature: Crows, Cranes and Camellias: The Natural World of Ohara Koson, Newland, Amy R., Jan Perrée & Robert Schaap, Leiden: Hotei Publishing, 2001, pg.162, pl.157.
Collections: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Toledo Museum of Art, University of Michigan Museum of Art.
