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Rainy Night Scene with Village Bridge
by Seki K (watercolour)

Original caretaker of this artwork: Private collector

	Artist:	Seki K (watercolour)
	Title:	Rainy Night Scene with Village Bridge (given title; official title unknown)
	Series:
	Date of first edition?:	circa 1930-1950
	Publisher (first edition)?:	Self
	Publisher (this edition)?:	Self
	Medium (first edition):	Watercolour
	Medium (this edition):	Watercolour
	Format (first edition):	Double Oban
	Format (this edition):	Double Oban
	DB artwork code:	46405
	Notes (first edition)?:	Japanese pre-war impressionist watercolor painting by artist K. Seki depicts a rainy night at a riverside village in shades of grays and blues with yellow glowing lamplights in windows that reflect in the surface of the wet road surface and water. This double oban size (20” by 13 3/8”) painting on artist paper has the brush painted red seal and signature of the artist in the lower left corner of the image. Undated, this painting was probably produced in the 1920s or 1930s. The paper shows some minor edge wear and a thin spot on the back where a price tag or merchant's sticker was removed, two sets of staple marks and holes in the upper margin, some puckering in the upper edge, and some minor foxing on the verso. Except for a thin diagonal scratch across the lowest branches of the large tree, this print otherwise has no toning or damage, such as any tears, creases, folds or repairs.
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