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| Artist: | Bartlett Charles |
| Title: | Ushibuse |
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| Date of first edition?: | 1916 |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Watanabe Shozaburo — 渡辺 |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Watanabe Shozaburo — 渡辺 |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 44484 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
"Ushibuse" also known as "The Sleeping Buddha."
Woodblock with hand-colored watercolors.
Signed in red-brown pencil in lower left margin "Charles W Bartlett". “CWB” inscribed in a rectangle. Titled and dated in key block. Copyright stamp, lower left. Vertical Watanabe cartouche in black ink.
APPROXIMATE Print dimensions: Overall = 10 x 14 3/4 Image = 8 15/16 x 14 1/16 inches. |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Contributer: MOSES COLLECTIBLES
You are bidding for the following item:
Original Bartlett Woodblock print, Entitled 'USHIBUSE, 1916' depicting a river scene with fishermen in boats before a mountainous shore -- 9in. x 14in. (22.8cm. x 35.5cm.) excluding margins, with rectangular artist's seal 'CWB' in the block , signed in Red seal and with ovoid publisher's seal of Watanabe Shozaburo in the lower left margin.
ARTIST: Charles Bartlett (1860-1940)
SERIES:
TITLE or SUBJECT: Ushibuse, Japan, also called : The Sleeping Buddha or Fishing in The Early Morning.
SIGNATURE or SEAL: 3 seals
DATE or CIRCA: 1916
PAPER SIZE: 22.8x35.5cm.
IMPRESSION/COLOR/CONDITION: Excellent/Excellent/ Good
CONDITION DETAILS: It was attached to a cardboard in 2 points at the back, when the guy that tried to disconect it from the board did it the top left corner was cut a bit. This is easy to repair. Otherwise very high quality print, no stains, strong impression and colors, clean paper at both sides.
See print no.32 at Bartlett Catalog Raisonee, page 119 in the catalog. |
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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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