MAEKAWA SEMPAN (1888-1960)

KYO HANAURI MUSUME (KYOTO FLOWER VENDOR) FLOWER VENDOR AKITA DANCER

Details

MAEKAWA SEMPAN (1888-1960)
Kyo hanauri musume (Kyoto flower vendor)
Flower vendor
Akita dancer
Woodcut, all with mica in borders, the first n.d. [1951], signed in Japanese Maekawa Sempan and in pencil in Roman script Senpan Maekawa; the second n.d., signed in Japanese Maekawa Sempan; the third n.d. [1954], signed in Japanese Maekawa Sempan, and in pencil in Roman script Senpan Maekawa
45 x 12in. (39.5 x 30.5cm.); 11.1/8 x 13.5/8in. (39.5 x 34.6cm.); 15.3/8 x 11in. (39 x 29cm.) (3)

Provenance

The second, purchased from the widow of the artist

Exhibited

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "Contemporary Japanese Prints," August 29--October 22, 1972

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
The first, George Kuwayama, Contemporary Japanese Prints (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1972), no. 10, p. 35.

For other impressions of the first see Oliver Statler, Modern Japanese Prints: An Art Reborn (Rutland, Vt. and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1980), pl. 22; Maekawa Sempan meisakuten/Exhibition of Prints by Sempan Maekawa (Tokyo: Riccar Art Museum, 1977), no. 325.; and of the third Lawrence Smith, Modern Japanese Prints 1912-1989 (London: British Museum Press, 1994), pl. 85.