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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, 29 October 2007
NOEL NOUET
Moat Bankei
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Date: 1936, dated in print, this is a later edition published by Doi with Endo-Seki carver/printer seals
Size: approx. 10.375" x 15.5"
Condition: Fine, no flaws, uncirculated print, never framed
Impression: Fine, very intricate key block (black) with very fine carving of the grasses, tight registration and good surface texture
Color: Fine, deep saturated color and bleed through to verso
ABOUT MOAT BANKEI
This broad, gently curving stretch of water is still one of the most impressive reaches of the great inner moat of Edo Castle. Now known as Sakurada Moat, it was called Benkei Moat in Nouet's day and that name goes back to the time of Hiroshige who also made a picture of this place in 1856 which was included in his series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. The change in the architecture between Nouet's version and Hiroshige's is striking, however the landscape remains mostly unchanged.
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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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