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| Artist: | Binnie Paul (1967- ) |
| Title: | Summer- Natsu |
| Series: | Four Seasons |
| Date of first edition?: | 2003 |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Self |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Self |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 38411 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Saturday, 17 September 2005
Artist Paul Binnie (1967-present)
Title "Summer" ("Natsu")
Date August 2003, Very Limited Edition #28/50, pencil-signed (#23/50; #24/50).
Series "Four Seasons"
(A 4-Print Beauty Series--Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring)
Publisher Self-carved/self-printed.
Seal, Carver/Printer (Paul Binnie)
Image Size Large 13 x 19
(nearly "double-oban" size).
Impression Fine. Skillfully executed "bokashi" (gradation of colors) shading; "burnished" highlights to black hair; gold, silver, and copper mica highlights; and baren "sujizuri" (circular tracings) to upper background.
Condition Pristine.
Reference/Illus See our recent article on "Four Seasons" Beauty Series-- by Paul Binnie to learn about the release of this new 4-print series.
Comments An EXCLUSIVE Ukiyoe-Gallery offering: Paul's first design of a very limited 4-print "bijin-ga" series featuring a Japanese beauty named Akiko.
See our related Article #23 "The Making of a Print--Paul Binnie's 'Red Fuji'" to learn about Paul Binnie's works. Also, see John Fiorillo's webpage on "Paul Binnie" to learn more about this talented Japanese-trained woodblock artist/printmaker. |
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| Artist Bio: |
Paul Binnie was born at Airthrey Castle, Scotland in 1967 and lived in Alloa, Central Scotland until 1985. He then attended Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art, taking his MA (Fine Art) in 1990. From then until the spring of 1993 he lived in Paris where he worked mostly in oils and watercolours, painting figure subjects and occasional landscapes. He began to collect Japanese Woodblock Prints in the late 1980s on a summer trip to Paris, and his extended stay in France allowed him to expand his collection and his knowledge of the subject. It was this interest in Japanese Prints along with a desire to understand the methods of their production that prompted him to move in March 1993 to Tokyo. He there sought training in the techniques of block print-making. Unable to enter the Yoshida studio, his first choice for training, due to the illness of Yoshida Toshi, he was advised to contact Seki Kenji. Kenji had been the head printer at Doi-Hangaten and Binnie worked with him for several years developing his own block printing style.
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