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Notes (this edition)
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Guaranteed original Japanese woodblock print

Artist: Kakunen Tsuruoka

Subject: Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco

Date: ca.1930's

Publisher: Bears Watanabe "D" seal

Size: Oban design measures 10.5" x 15.5"

Condition: Excellent color, impression, condition.

NOTE: Kakunen was a shin hanga artist who designed only a handful of woodblock prints with several of them being California scenes. His work is relatively rare and this is a fine example of one of his best designs.

See images.
Sunday, 30 March 2008

Catalog ID: 7253
Artist: Tsukuoka, Kakunen (1892-1977)
Title: Golden Gate Bridge
Print Type: Original Japanese Woodblock Print
Edition No: First
Date: 1937
Size: 10-1/2 x 15-1/2 "
Condition: Very fine.
Notes: Kakunen seal and signature, lower left. Signed in block letters and dated, 1937, in pencil by the artist. Natural paper creases in middle of right and left margins.
Primarily a painter, only four Tsukuoka woodblock print designs are known.
2006?2?17?

THIS AUCTION IS ON THIS ESTATE FRESH ORIGINAL WOOD BLOCK PRINT, TITLED: SAN FRANCISCO'S FOG OVER THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE…BY CONTEMPERORY ARTIST:KAKUNEN…THE OVERALL SIZE IS:15 1/2"TALL X 20 1/2" WIDE…VIEWING SIZE IS: 9" TALL X 14" WIDE…FRAMED IN BAMBOO STYLE FRAME…CONDITION OF PRINT,MATT,AND FRAME ARE VERY NICE…BROWN PAPER BACKING IS LOSE ON EDGES…HAS OLD WIRE HANGER…
Tuesday, 3 July 2007

Golden Gate Bridge

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Artist: Kakunen, Tsuruoka
Date: 1937
Image Size: 10.5" x 15.5
Publisher: Watanabe ("D" seal)
Condition: Excellent color, impression, condition
Item Number: M49
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