Catalog ID: 2778
Artist: Katsushika Hokusai
Medium: Original Japanese Woodblock Print
Series Title: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
Edition: Original
Date: c.1830
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudo)
Reference No.: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Size: 9 ¾ x 15
Condition: Fine, with areas of toning and lightly backed.
Notes: The breathtaking composition of this woodblock print, said to have inspired Debussy’s La Mer (The Sea) and Rilke’s Der Berg (The Mountain), ensures its reputation as an icon of world art. Hokusai cleverly played with perspective to make Japan’s grandest mountain appear as a small triangular mound within the hollow of the cresting wave. The artist became famous for his landscapes created using a palette of indigo and imported Prussian blue.
Artist: Katsushika Hokusai
Medium: Original Japanese Woodblock Print
Series Title: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
Edition: Original
Date: c.1830
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudo)
Reference No.: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Size: 9 ¾ x 15
Condition: Fine, with areas of toning and lightly backed.
Notes: The breathtaking composition of this woodblock print, said to have inspired Debussy’s La Mer (The Sea) and Rilke’s Der Berg (The Mountain), ensures its reputation as an icon of world art. Hokusai cleverly played with perspective to make Japan’s grandest mountain appear as a small triangular mound within the hollow of the cresting wave. The artist became famous for his landscapes created using a palette of indigo and imported Prussian blue.