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Seaside Farewell

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Seaside Farewell
by Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934)

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Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934) 竹久夢二
Title: Seaside Farewell
Series: Yumeji Masterpieces 夢二名作集
Date of first edition?Not set
Publisher (first edition)?Kato Junji
Publisher (this edition)?Kato Junji
Medium (first edition): Woodblock
Medium (this edition): Woodblock
Format (first edition): Aiban
Format (this edition): Aiban
DB artwork code: 39900
Notes (first edition)?
Notes (this edition)?
The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:

Saturday, 18 November 2006

Seaside Farewell

Artist Takehisa Yumeji
Year: c.1925
Size: 13 3/4" x 10"
Impression: Very Good +
Color: Very Good +
Condition: Very Good - light soiling top margin
Comments: Publisher: Kato Junji of Nihon Hanga Kenkyusho

Series Information: 
The majority of Yumeji's woodblock-printed designs were released after his death in 1934. The publisher who was instrumental in having Yumeji's work recognized was the Tokyo-based Katō Junji (1885-1961). During the late 1930s and early 1940s. Katō and his team of artisan block-cutters and printers at the Katō Print Workshop (Katō Print Workshop) (Katō Hanga Kenkyūjo) reused and recalled numerous famous paintings, music scores and watercolours for series of prints and postcards. The thirty woodblock prints in this set are a selection of the most popular cover designs from the over 270 that the artist produced of Seno music scores. Katō Junji personally compiled the set and it reflects what he believed was representative of Yumeji's artistic diversity, ranging from the portrayal of beautiful women and landscapes to this fascination with Western artistic styles. (from The Lavenberg Collection of Japanese Prints).
Artist Bio: 
Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934) was a leading figure in the Taisho Romanticism movement that combined Western romanticism with native Japanese styles during the Taisho Period (1912-1926). He was a painter, writer, poet, bookbinder and illustrator whose drawings of women with thin bodies and large eyes filled with melancholy were known as Yumeji Bijin-ga. During the height of his popularity he was called the “modern Utamaro” and the Japanese “Toulouse-Lautrec and Edvard Munch”. His prints epitomized the relationship between popular art and the woodblock.

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