MUNAKATA SHIKO (1903-1975)

DOHYO NO SAKU (SIGN POST)

Details

MUNAKATA SHIKO (1903-1975)
Dohyo no saku (Sign post)
Woodcut, 1971, signed in pencil in Japanese Shiko and signed and dated in Roman script Munakata 197I.I.25, titled in pencil as above, pine needles and field chrysanthemum symbols, two seals Hogen Muna Shiko and chiken kofu, framed and glazed
12 x 51.1/8in. (32.3 x 129.8cm.)

Exhibited

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "Munakata Shiko 1903-1975/Ikeda Masuo b. 1934," March 14--June 16, 1978

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
George Kuwayama, Munakata Shiko 1903-1975/Ikeda Masuo b. 1934 (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1979), no. 25.

For an impression with an alternate title Sunayama no saku renki no saku Jusan no saku (Sand dune, set of nudes, Jusan) dated 1969 see Omoi no saku/The World of Love, Munakata Shiko zenshu/The Complete Works of Shiko Munakata, vol. 10 (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1978), pl. 111. Jusan is the name of a town in northern Japan destroyed by a tidal wave in the fifteenth century and replaced by a mountain of sand.