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| Artist: | Mori Masamoto — 森正元 |
| Title: | Karamatsu Forest — から松林 |
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| Date of first edition?: | 1965 |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Adachi |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Unknown — 不明 |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Large Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Large Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 41718 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
Karamatsu (Larch) Forest, 1965
Woodblock Print
Size: 16.9 x 10.7 in
Dated: 1965
Signed: signed and sealed by the artist within image at lower left.
Seals in the bottom left margin read:
Publisher: Adaichi
Carver: Ito Susumu
Printer: Sato Kanjiro
Description: "Karamatsu Bayashi" (a larch forest). A powerful semi-abstract: Massed green trees of an ancient forest are reflected in the waters edge. |
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| Notes (this edition)?: |
| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Wednesday, 3 December 2008
Title Forest
Artist Masamoto Mori born 1912
Signature Masamoto.
Seal Artist's seal.
Dated 1965.
Medium/Technique Woodblock print.
Impression Very good …First edition printing.
Colors Very good.
Condition Good … Dark toning. Upper and lower margin wavy. Two stains, one at the left margin, the other on the lower right area of the image.
Description "Karamatsu Bayashi", Larch forest.
Note Carver Ito Susumu, printer Sato Kanjiro.
Format Oban tate-e
Width Item 11.0 inches = 28.0 cm
Height Item 15.7 inches = 40.0 cm
Width Image 10.0 inches = 25.5 cm
Height Image 15.0 inches = 38.0 cm
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| Artist Bio: |
Mori Masamoto was a Japanese artist who was born in 1912. Little is known about Masamoto. He designed about 16 large-format shin-hanga landscape prints for Adachi Publishing in the 1950s, and about four oban-sized scenes for the publisher Baba Nobuhiko in the late 1950s after Baba re-established his publishing business after it was destroyed in world war 2. He also published at least 16 postcard-sized prints via Baba and perhaps other publishers. Masamoto's large-format shin-hanga scenes are beautifully rendered with wonderful attention to detail including masterful 'bokashi' colour graduation and often have subdued colour palettes . Woodblock prints by Masamoto are very rare, suggesting a single edition with small edition size for each scene (perhaps only 50 to 100 strikes per scene), and as a result are difficult to obtain.
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