Details
HOKUSAI: oban yoko-e (25.9 x 38.1 cm.); Kanagawa oki nami-ura "Under the wave off Kanagawa", from the series Fugaku sanjurokkei The thirty-six views of Mt. Fuji", signed Hokusai aratame Iitsu hitsu and published by Eijudo- good impression, slightly faded, faint line of pink color across top and side edge, several light spots in sky, tiny repaired tear in center, vary faint center fold, vertical crease below signature, generally good condition
Provenance
Carl Schraubstadter, sold Parke Bernet Galleries, New York, January 19, 1948, lot no. 219, sold $500
Literature
Ukiyo-e Taika shusei, Tokyo 1931/2, Vol. 15, no. 1; Ukiyo-e taikei, vol. 13, no. 1; Nihon hanga bijutsu zenshu, Tokyo, 1960-2, no. 8; Louis V. Ledoux, Japanese Prints Hokusai and Hiroshige in the Collection of Louis V. Ledoux, Princeton, 1951, no. 21; Vignier and Inada, Yeishi, Choki, Hokusai...Estampes Japonaises Exposees au Musee des Arts Decoratifs en Janvier 1913, 1913, no. 258, pl. LXXIII; Richard Lane, Hokusai, His Life and Work, London, Barrie and Jenkins, 1989, p. 190, color; Hillier, Highly Important Japanese Prints, Illustrated Books and Drawings, from the Henri Vever Collection: Part I, Messrs. Sotheby and Co., March, 1974, no. 300; M. Forrer, Hokusai, A guide to the serial graphics, Philadelphia and London, 1974, no. 107.28; Hillier, Hokusai, Paintings, Drawings and Woodcuts, London, 1955, pl. 65