MAEKAWA SEMPAN (1888-1960)

YAMASUZUME TO SHOJO (MOUNTAIN SPARROW AND GIRL) ISHIYAKIIMO (ROAST SWEET POTATOES) BAIRIN (PLUM ORCHARD)

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MAEKAWA SEMPAN (1888-1960)
Yamasuzume to shojo (Mountain sparrow and girl)
Ishiyakiimo (Roast sweet potatoes)
Bairin (Plum orchard)
Woodcut, the first n.d. [1955], signed in Japanese Maekawa Sempan and inscribed in pencil in Roman print on verso No. 10; the second n.d. [1957], signed in Japanese Maekawa Sempan and in Roman script in pencil Senpan Maekawa; the third 1943, inscribed in Roman print in pencil Senpan Maekawa and inscribed dated 1943, edition of 8/10 and inscribed in Japanese in pencil Sho (Showa) juhachi dai hachi (1943, the 8th), signed in pencil in Japanese Maekawa Sempan, and also numbered 6/30
12.1/8 x 17in. (30.8 x 44.5cm.); 12 x 15in. (32 x 39.6cm.); 12 x 16in. (32.4 x 41.4cm.) (3)

Lot Essay

For other impressions of the first and second see Maekawa Sempan meisakuten/Exhibition of Prints by Sempan Maekawa (Tokyo: Riccar Art Museum, 1977) pl. 277 and no. 315 respectively; Oliver Statler, Modern Japanese Prints: An Art Reborn (Rutland, Vt. and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1980), nos. 27 and 28; Takahashi Seiichiro et al., Kindai Nihon hanga taikei (Compendium of modern Japanese prints), vol. 2 (Tokyo: Mainichi Shimbunsha, 1976), pl. 44.