Lapwing on a Tree Stump

Date 1920s
Technique Woodblock Print
Price $1,200.00
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Edition not stated. Signed Koson with the artist’s red seal Koson, lower right.

Image size 13 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches (343 x 184 mm); sheet size 14 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches (368 x 191 mm).

A superb, painterly impression, with fresh colors, on cream wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins; barly visible pale foxing in the thin margins, otherwise in excellent condition. Stamped faintly MADE IN JAPAN in the bottom center margin, verso. Published by Daikokuya.

Literature: Crows, Cranes and Camellias: The Natural World of Ohara Koson, Newland, Amy R.: Jan Perree & Robert Schaap, Leiden: Hotei Publishing, 2001, pg 179.

Collections: Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford (UK), British Museum (London).