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| Artist: | Kotozuka Eiichi (1906-) — 琴塚英一 |
| Title: | Dahlias |
| Series: | 50 Kinds of Flowers — もくはん自刻花五十題 |
| Date of first edition?: | 20/01/1935 |
| Date of this artwork?: | 1936 (may not be accurate) |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Unsodo — 芸艸堂 |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Unsodo — 芸艸堂 |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Chuban
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| Format (this edition): | Chuban |
| DB artwork code: | 42953 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
| The first edition of this series of 50 prints appears to have been sold to subscription buyers via periodic sets of five prints (perhaps each month). With the completion of subscription purchases a second edition of all 50 scenes was then published in April 1936. Subscription sales were a very common method of selling large print series. |
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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
Title Fifty Kinds of Flowers - Dahlias and the Original Folder
Artist Eiichi Kotozuka 1906-1979
Seal "Koto".
Dated 1935.
Publisher Unsodo.
Medium/Technique Woodblock print.
Impression Very good.
Colors Very good.
Condition Good ... Toned. Mat lines. Light foxing spots.
Description From "Hana Goju Dai no Uchi" ("Fifty Kinds of Flowers"), a series of flower prints by Kyoto artists published by Unsodo.
Note The print comes with the original series folder.
Width Item 14.2 inches = 36.0 cm
Height Item 10.8 inches = 27.5 cm
Width Image 11.8 inches = 30.0 cm
Height Image 8.9 inches = 22.5 cm
Width Mat 17.3 inches = 44.0 cm
Height Mat 12.8 inches = 32.5 cm |
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| Series Information: |
| The first edition of this series of 50 prints appears to have been sold to subscription buyers via periodic sets of five prints (perhaps each month). With the completion of subscription purchases a second edition of all 50 scenes was then published in April 1936. Subscription sales were a very common method of selling large print series. |
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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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