MAEKAWA SEMPAN (1888-1960)

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MAEKAWA SEMPAN (1888-1960)

Chosen Kongosan (Diamond Mountain in Korea)

Yukikaki nimpu (Snow shoveler)

Rakuyomatsu no wakaba ni tsutsumareta Hanareyama (Mount Hanare covered with pine needles)

Hishoki no kyu Karuizawa (Old Karuizawa during the summer holidays)

Boshu no kaigan no uma to onna (Horse and woman on the shore in Boshu)

Ushi to kodomo (Ox and oxherd)
First to fifth, woodcut, the sixth woodcut with mica, n.d., the fifth and sixth [1958], the first from the series Shin Nihon hyakkei (One hundred views of New Japan), sealed Han (Pan), titled as above in Japanese, with inscription Nihon hanga kyokai sen (Japan Print Association selection); the second signed in Japanese Maekawa Sempan; the third and the fourth from the series Nihon fukei hanga Karuizawa no bu (Prints of Japanese views, Karuizawa), both sealed Han (Pan), each titled on verso in Japanese as above, the fourth also titled in pencil in Roman letters on verso Karuizawa Street; the fifth and sixth signed in Japanese Maekawa Sempan; the fifth signed in Roman script in pencil Senpan Maekawa, the third and sixth with Juda Collection seal on verso

NAGASE YOSHIRO (1891-1978)

Kogai shokei (Small view of outskirts of town)

Woodcut, n.d., signed in pencil in Japanese Nagase Yoshio saku and titled as above on verso, signed in Japanese Yoshio in the block
9.7/8 x 13in. (25.1 x 33cm.); 13 x 9in. (33.6 x 24.1cm.); the third and fourth: 7 x 95/8in. (17.8 x 24.5cm.) each; 12 x 16in. (31.8 x 40.5cm.); 14 x 16in. (35.5 x 41.2cm.); 8 x 11in. (7)

Provenance

Helen and Felix Juda
The second and fifth, purchased from the widow of the artist

Lot Essay

For another impression of the second print see Maekawa Sempan meisakuten/Exhibition of Prints by Sempan Maekawa (Tokyo: Riccar Art Museum, 1977), no. 40.

For other impressions of the fifth and sixth see Maekawa Sempan meisakuten/Exhibition of Prints by Sempan Maekawa (Tokyo: Riccar Art Museum, 1977), nos. 330 and 321.

For another impression of the seventh see Donald Jenkins, Images of a Changing World: Japanese Prints of the Twentieth Century (Portland, Ore.: Portland Art Museum, 1983), no. 63, p. 84.