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| Artist: | Nouet Noel (1885-1969) |
| Title: | Nihonbashi Bridge |
| Series: | Scenes of Tokyo Views |
| Date of first edition?: | 1936 |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Doi — 土井 |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Doi — 土井 |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Not Set
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| Format (this edition): | Not Set |
| DB artwork code: | 38706 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Monday, 21 November 2005
NOEL NOUET
Nihonbashi Bridge
Date: 1936, dated in print, published by Doi with the Endo-Seki carver/printer seals, Doi watermark in upper left corner
Size: approx. 10.7" x 16"
Condition: Fine, no condition issues
Impression: Fine, Nouet prints are notorious for their carving as the artist's style used many lines and required much more time to be carved than other shin hanga artist's prints
Color: Fine, deep saturated color and bleed through
A BOATMAN gets protection from the rain under the Nihonbashi as pedestians bearing umbrellas cross above in this 1936 print of Tokyo. |
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| Artist Bio: |
NOEL NOUET was a French artist who designed prints of Tokyo land-and-citiscapes. Little is known about Nouet's formative years. During the 1930's and 40's, he worked as the director of La Maison Franco-Japonaise and was a lecturer at Tokyo University. In 1935, Nouet began collaborating with the Tokyo publisher Doi Teiichi. His first woodblock prints were monochrome, based on his pen and ink sketches. These prints include "Gate of Zozoji Temple" and "Kikyo Gate of the Emperor's Palace". In 1936, Doi and Nouet produced a series of color woodblock prints called "Ten Views of Tokyo". All of these prints are signed and dated in English within the image. In 1946, Nouet published a book of his drawings called Tokyo: Fifty Sketches. He also wrote several books on Japanese history.
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