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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: | 41719 |
| 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:
Friday, 25 December 2009
ARTIST: Mori, Masamoto (act. 1950's)
SERIES: Woodblock print
TITLE or SUBJECT: Larch Forest
SIGNATURE or SEAL: Signature and seal
DATE or CIRCA: 1965
PAPER SIZE: 15 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches
IMPRESSION/COLOR/CONDITION: Good/Good/Good
CONDITION DETAILS: Light toning, some foxing, light wear and soiling |
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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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