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| Artist: | Bartlett Charles |
| Title: | Hawaiian Fisherman |
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| Date of first edition?: | 1910 (circa) |
| Date of this artwork?: | 1910 circa (may not be accurate) |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Not Set |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Not Set |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 44290 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
| I would like to confirm the 1910 dating of this print. |
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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:
Charles W. Bartlett Hawaiian Fisherman Woodblock Print Old NY Label Signed NR!
Described By: Barbara / USS
Title: Charles W. Bartlett Hawaiian Fisherman Woodblock Print Old NY Label Signed N Res
Description:
This just in- Fresh from a local estate of retires from Europe and New York City!
Hess Fine Auctions is thrilled to offer this wonderful Charles W. Bartlett woodblock print. Charles Bartlett was a British artist famous for his Hawaiian period. This has a Japanese ukiyo-e feel with great luminous color as well as subject matter.
The print depicts an image of a fisherman at shores edge with a cast net draped on his body, with the subjects eyes cast on the sea, ready to throw his net.
Dissembled for careful inspection (see images), the woodcut is printed on rice paper measuring approximately 14 1/2” by 10 1/4”, beneath grass composition mat board with tape tabs at top margin with a 9 1/2” by 14” image site within a bamboo look wood frame approximately 15 3/4” by 20 3/4” by 5/8 inch deep behind glass.
Signed and titled lower right with artists monogram, Hawaiian Fisherman. CWB with attached typed card, New York framers label and hand inscribed note verso:
The Attached card (upper right) and hand inscribed note have the same information as follows:
This I purchased in Honolulu in 1910. It is painted on rice paper by the famous Charles Bartlett. I think that I framed it well with the grass cloth mat and the bamboo frame – The spirit of the Tropics. The scene is a very real one and the color is not exaggerated.
Framer Label: J. Assenheim & Son Importers of Paintings, Famous Etchings, Sportings and Fine China, 37 New York, New York. |
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| Artist Bio: |
Charles William Bartlett (1860-1940) was one of the first artists to work with the publisher Watanabe Shozaburo. Bartlett studied at the Royal Academy in London and at Academie Julian in Paris. Until his travels to Japan, Ceylon, Indonesia, and China in 1913, Bartlett worked primarily as a landscape and genre painter. In 1915 he met famous print publisher Watanabe, with whom he collaborated on the publication of a number of "shin hanga" style colour woodblock prints during the next decade, using Watanabe's studio to carve and create his own woodblocks. Bartlett designed 38 woodblock prints for Watanabe, beginning in 1916 and lasting through 1925. Twenty-two of these prints were produced within the first year, many with the date 1916 carved into the key block. The first series of prints consisted of six Indian scenes plus a cover print of the Taj Mahal. This was followed by a series of six Japanese scenes. Many of Bartlett's prints and etchings were scenes from his travels through Southeast Asia, China, and later Hawaii. After 1917, Bartlett settled in Hawaii where he remained for the rest of his life.
It is little known that in actual fact Bartlett commissioned Watanabe to publish his 38 scenes, rather than being an artist working for Watanabe, and from his base in Hawaii Bartlett held a very tight reign over Watanabe's production of each scene, requesting numerous fine colour changes for each scene. Because each of the scenes were commissioned and thus paid for by Bartlett , he maintained ownership of all the woodblocks, which were shipped back to Hawaii after each edition and are still kept in Hawaii even to this day.
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