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| Artist: | Bakufu Ohno (1888-1976) — 大野麦風 |
| Title: | Rainbow Trout - Landlocked Salmon — ヤマメ |
| Series: | Familiar Fishes of Nippon — 大日本魚類画集 |
| Date of first edition?: | 1940/7 |
| Date of this artwork?: | 1940s/50 (may not be accurate) |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Nishinomiya Shoin — 西宮書院 |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Kyoto Hanga-In — 京都版画院 |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Large Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Large Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 38021 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
| From Volume 3, print number 11. |
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| Notes (this edition)?: |
| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Sunday, 10 July 2005
Original Japanese Woodblock Print by Bafuku Ohno, 1888-1976. He was an honored painter and printmaker in Japan, a member of the Hyogo Prefecture Academy of Fine Arts.
This print is titled "Rainbow Trout. " I verifed it in a catalog of the era! It is from his famous Great Japanese Fish Picture Collection, circa 1940. This series, my limited research indicates, consists of 72 prints of fresh and saltwater fish & crustaceans. This print is in it's original mat. The actual print dimensions are 16" x 11 1/4 " .
"Rainbow Trout" is a marvel of springtime greens - the countless shades of green in the water, on the fish, and on the leaves of the flowering branches hanging over the water. The bellies of the fish and the tips of their fins are touched with fine powdered mica for a realistic fishscale effect.
The print itself is in EXCELLENT condition
Upon reviewing the photos, I see at least one faded spot in the upper corner of the print. This is not visible to the naked eye, but I want to bring it to you attention for the sake of full disclosure.
Please note condition on the original mat: a piece of paper (marked "Rainbow Trout") was paperclipped to the lower right corner of the mat. I believe the paperclip was there for many years. This paperclip left an indentation and there is a slight second paperclip indent also on the left side of the mat.
Two of the photos in this listing are of the labels, one in English and one in Japanese. They are on the original brown paper wrapping the set of prints were purchased in. They will not be included in this sale, they are for reference photos only.
Please notice I have two other prints from this artist listed on ebay - shrimp and sweetfish. I purchased eight originally. Two have sold, two I am keeping for my collection (goldfish and hairtail eel - which is an amazing study in cobalt blue). The remaining print, koi, we are still deciding if we will keep or list.
I bought them just down the road at a very small antique shop that also does estate sales. The shop owner told me they came from a local house that had belonged to an elderly couple and they had purchased the prints in Japan. He did not have the time to research them, but suggested I should.
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| Artist Bio: |
Bakufu Ohno (1888-1976) was born in Tokyo. He moved to Kansai after the great Kantou earthquake in 1923. Ohno exhibited oil paintings at Teiten in 1929. He was an honorary member of the Hyogo Prefecture Academy of Fine Arts, and a member of Taiheiyogakai. Ohno produced many landscape and fish prints, including the Great Japanese Fish Picture Collection (Dai Nihon gyorui gashu) in 1940, which was published by Kyoto Hanga-in; blocks were carved by Matsuda and Kikuda, printed by Shinagawa, Nagae, Uchida and Ohno.
大野麥風（1888-1976、本名：要蔵）は、東京で生まれ、初めは長原孝太郎の指導を受け、洋画を学びました。1909年の第3回文部省美術展覧会で画壇に登場してからは、白馬会・太平洋画会・光風会などにも出品したものの、やがて、洋画から日本画に転向し、1919年の第1回帝国美術院展覧会では、日本画で入選しています。
さらに、木版画を手がけるようになった麥風は、1937年に西宮書院(現在の京都版画院)から出版された代表作 『大日本魚類画集』で、原画を担当し、当代一流の文化人の協力を得て、「原色木版二百度手摺り」といわれる色鮮やかな木版画集を生み出しました。会員制度で頒布されたこの500部限定の木版画集は、1944年まで各回12点、6期に分けて断続的に刊行され、麥風は水族館では飽き足らず、和歌浦沖で潜水艇に乗り、魚の生態を観察し、細部にまでこだわった作品を作り上げました。 |
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