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| Artist: | Nouet Noel (1885-1969) |
| Title: | Akasaka Mitsuke |
| 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: | 38819 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Wednesday, 10 May 2006
NOËL NOUËT
(FRENCH ACTIVE 1930S & 1940S)
ASAKUSA MITSUKE
Signed Noël Nouët; Doi, publisher; Yokoi, printer; Ikeda, carver. With Do watermark. Color woodcut.
15 1/2 x 10 3/16 in.
Unframed
Condition Report
Condition: 39.3 x 25.9 cm.
- Sheet with margins.
- Sheet with light staining.
- Some stains and soiling in the margins recto; stain located within the image above artist signature.
- Scattered handling creases.
- Small spots of f
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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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