MUNAKATA SHIKO (1903-1975)

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MUNAKATA SHIKO (1903-1975)

Aomuki no saku (Woman looking up)

Signed in pencil lower left in Japanese Shiko and in Roman script Munakata I952.II.3, pine needle symbol, sealed in red Muna, inscribed in pencil in another hand lower right Kwannon, backed with thin paper inscribed on reverse in red with numeral 47--sumizuri-e woodblock print with hand-applied color from the series Nyonin Kanze-on hanga saku (Women, Merciful Avalokitesvaras) [Compositions on the poems of Okamoto Kanoko]
16 5/8 x 21 3/8in. (42.2 x 54.2cm.)