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Night Snow

Night Snow 夜の雪
by Takasawa Keiichi

Original caretaker of this artwork: Yahoo Auction, Japan

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Artist: Takasawa Keiichi 高沢圭一
Title: Night Snow 夜の雪
Series: 
Date of first edition?circa 1970-1990
Publisher (first edition)?Not Set
Publisher (this edition)?Not Set
Medium (first edition): Woodblock
Medium (this edition): Woodblock
Format (first edition): Aiban
Format (this edition): Aiban
DB artwork code: 44912
Notes (first edition)?
This particular scene is very rare despite the large edition size. I suspect only a few of the 300 were actually completed and sold.

作家名 高沢圭一
作品名 『 夜の雪 』
技 法 木版画
サイン 版上刷込サイン
エディション ed.300
イメージサイズ 最大値(約)    33  ×  25   cm
額サイズ 最大値(約)    55  ×  45   cm
作品状態 総じて良
Notes (this edition)?
The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:

作家名 高沢圭一
作品名 『 夜の雪 』
技 法 木版画
サイン 版上刷込サイン
エディション ed.300
イメージサイズ 最大値(約)    33  ×  25   cm
額サイズ 最大値(約)    55  ×  45   cm
作品状態 総じて良好

Artist Bio: 
Takasawa Keiichi was born in Gunma prefecture in 1914. In 1936 he dropped out of Nihon University school of technology, and subsequently he studied with Fujita Tsugeharu, who strongly influenced him. In 1937 he joined the Army News Department in Shanghai.
In 1939 he won the Asahi award for one of his paintings. After the war he started making illustrations for women's magazines, and he was the author of A pictorial story of the kimono (1947), and of Women of Japan (1955). He also made woodblock prints, often based on his paintings. In 1974 an 1975 he had two major exhibitions in Paris. In 1977 an important publication on his paintings, Takasawa Keiichi ga shu appeared.
The slender, long necked beauty often appeared in his works was said to be his wife.
たかざわ・けいいち 大正3年群馬県生まれ 日大芸術学科中退 挿絵を描くかたわら現代美人画(油絵)の制作に情熱を注ぎ各地で個展 1974年パリのバンドーム画廊で「花と蝶」と題する個展を開き話題を集める 1975年フランス ル・サロン展で受賞 「婦人公論」の表紙絵を担当する 1976年随筆「画になる女」第一回日本随筆家協会賞受賞

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