Munakata Shiko (1903-1975)

Ogao no saku (A large face)

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Munakata Shiko (1903-1975)
Ogao no saku (A large face)
Sumizuri-e woodcut with hand-applied color, n.d. [1959], signed in pencil in Japanese Shiko, in Roman script Munakata and with field chrysanthemun and pine needle symbols, and sealed in red in Japanese Hogan Munakata Shiko--paper very slightly toned, tape stains along top and bottom edge and toward the center on side edges
13.5/8 x 12¼in. (34.6 x 31.1cm.)

Lot Essay

Another impression was sold in these Rooms, Japanese Modern and Contemporary Art, 31 October, 1995, lot 462.

For another impression see Nyonin no saku/The World of Women (1), vol. 7 of Munakata Shiko zenshu/The Complete Works of Shiko Munakata (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1979), pl. 159.

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