HOKKEI AND SCHOOL: an album of ink drawings and preparatory prints for surimono, many signed and many preparatory drawings for known surimono, containing 57 ink on paper drawings, 17 preparatory ink-proofs, some with printed signature Hokkei and ink annotations and poems in ink intended to be printed on the final surimono, the cover of the album inscribed Zatsugajo "Volume of sketches" and marked in blue arabic numerals 305 and in pencil 302, sealed Shummei and bearing a round collection label Hokkei I RA 22, another numeral 63 in ink and Hokkei in blue pencil- good condition

Details

HOKKEI AND SCHOOL: an album of ink drawings and preparatory prints for surimono, many signed and many preparatory drawings for known surimono, containing 57 ink on paper drawings, 17 preparatory ink-proofs, some with printed signature Hokkei and ink annotations and poems in ink intended to be printed on the final surimono, the cover of the album inscribed Zatsugajo "Volume of sketches" and marked in blue arabic numerals 305 and in pencil 302, sealed Shummei and bearing a round collection label Hokkei I RA 22, another numeral 63 in ink and Hokkei in blue pencil- good condition

See illustration of an ink-proof for a surimono of a woman cleaning her hands with water from a dragon jar, the poems inscribed by hand in ink and see illustration of an ink drawing preparatory for a surimono of Kintaro weilding an ax

Lot Essay

Another album of drawings signed by or attributed to Hokkei is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Presumably this album of Hokkei drawings and prints, said to be from the Duret Collection, is the companion volume to the one in the V & A. In the album offered here a number of the drawings or the prints are annotated in pencil to be reproduced in Gonse, L'Art japonais