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| Artist: | Kamei Tobei (1901-1977) — 亀井藤兵衛 |
| Title: | Bunraku Puppet |
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| Date of first edition?: | 1949 |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Korokusha (a. 1940s/50s) — 紅録社 |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Korokusha (a. 1940s/50s) — 紅録社 |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 43247 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
Artist: Tobei Kamei.
Title: "Bunraku Puppet."
Date: 1949.
Publisher: Self-printed by the artist and published by the Korokusha publishing house which he co-founded with Kotozuka and Tokuriki.
Format: Approx. 13 x 9 inches.
Limited edition of 200 prints.
This may be his most well-known print. Works by the artist are in the collections of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Carnegie Museum of Art, Harvard Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. |
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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:
TOBEI KAMEI Japanese Woodblock Print BUNRAKU PUPPET HEAD Sosaku Hanga Mica
Condition: Full size. Signed and numbered from an edition of 200 by the Artist in pencil on the verso and sealed within the image. Small areas of adhesive remnants on the top back corners. Very Good state.
Color: Excellent.
Impression: Fine with extensive mica. |
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| Artist Bio: |
Kamei Tobei studied at Kyoto Kaiga Semmon Gakko. He was a founding member of the Kyoto Sosaku Hanga Kyokai. With Tomikichiro Tokuriki and Kotozuka Eiichi he established his own publishing company to support the selling of Sosaku Hanga prints. In 1953 Kamei followed an old Japanese artist tradition and changed his name - to Genbei Kamei.
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