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| Artist: | Kotozuka Eiichi (1906-) — 琴塚英一 |
| Title: | A Sitting Beauty with Kimono, Maiko |
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| Date of first edition?: | Not set |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Uchida — 内田 |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Uchida — 内田 |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 42949 |
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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:
Monday, 25 April 2011
Japanese Woodblock Print by Eiichi Kotozuka (1906-1979):
Japan, 17 1/2” x 11 3/4” incl. margins
Title; a Sitting Beauty with Kimono, “Maiko”
Seal; Artist’s “Koto” and publisher’s seals on the lower left images,
Publisher; Uchida woodblock co.,
Date; c 1950s,
Condition; it is in very good condition with full margins (no damages at all). |
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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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