Lot Essay
This print is not included in the 1977-79 catalogue raisonn of the artist, Munakata Shiko zenshu/The Complete Works of Shiko Munakata.
RAIFUSE KAO (FACE OF A SEATED THUNDER GOD) BASSUI (B) (EXTRACTION B), FROM THE SERIES SHICHIHARAMITSU HANGA KYO [MIRROR OF THE PRAJNAPARAMITA SUTRA]
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MUNAKATA SHIKO (1903-1975)
Raifuse kao (Face of a seated thunder god) bassui (B) (extraction B), from the series Shichiharamitsu hanga kyo [Mirror of the Prajnaparamita sutra]
Woodcut with hand-applied color, n.d., sealed Muna, inscribed in ink lower left corner hidari (left), titled in ink on verso in Japanese as above, slight tape stains
21 x 15.7/8in. (53.3 x 40.3cm.)
Raifuse kao (Face of a seated thunder god) bassui (B) (extraction B), from the series Shichiharamitsu hanga kyo [Mirror of the Prajnaparamita sutra]
Woodcut with hand-applied color, n.d., sealed Muna, inscribed in ink lower left corner hidari (left), titled in ink on verso in Japanese as above, slight tape stains
21 x 15.7/8in. (53.3 x 40.3cm.)