Artist: Kawase Hasui
Medium: Original Japanese Woodblock Print
Series Title: Snow
Edition: Limited Edition - #157/350
Date: 1929
Publisher: Sakai/Kawaguchi
Reference No.: Hotei #190 (full page)
Size: 11 -1/4 x 16 -1/4 "
Condition: Very fine, with suprb colors
Notes:
A highly desirable 1929 limited edition snow scene. Red numbered seal, #157/350. "Kawaguchi", inventory number "17" and "Made in Japan", stamped on the reverse. Carver: Maeda. Printer: Komatsu. Provenance: From the private collection of the Robert O. Muller Estate.
In addition to working with a number of publishers throughout his career Hasui also collaborated with many printers and carvers, whose skills were indispensable to the printmaking process and to the successful completion of a print. In particular, Hasui is known to have a close working relationship with one of Watanabe's printers, Ono Gintaro, who principally oversaw the printing of the artist's works. However, with the sixteen prints that Hasui produced under the joint publication of Sakai and Kawaguchi, the artist worked with the carver Maeda Kantaro and the printer Komatsu Wasakichi.