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| Artist: | Kotozuka Eiichi (1906-) — 琴塚英一 |
| Title: | Bird on a branch |
| Series: | Pictures of Women — 女絵 |
| Date of first edition?: | Not set |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Self |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Self |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 42528 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Thursday, 30 September 2010
Bird on a branch
Date: ca. 1950
Size: 42 x 31 cms
17 x 12 inch
Technique: sumi and colours on paper
Condition: This preparatory drawing was done on cream-coloured, somewhat crinkly paper; there is a weak horizontal fold in the middle
Price: 230 Euro |
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| Artist Bio: |
KOTOZUKA, EIICHI was born in Osaka in 1906. He studied at the Kyoto Specialist School of Painting and in the late 1940s was one of the four artists who founded a co-operative publishing company called Koryokusha in an effort to gain an artistic expression free of the major houses. Tokuriki, Tobei and Tasaburo were the other three involved. He has created quite a number of woodblocks covering unique scenes of Japanese tradition, flowers, landscapes and wildlife. He was a member of the Seiryusha Group of Liberal Artists and Died in 1979.
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