ONCHI KOSHIRO (1891-1955)

ARU BAIORINISUTO NO INSHO (IMPRESSION OF A VIOLINIST) (PORTRAIT OF SUWA NEJIKO)

Details
ONCHI KOSHIRO (1891-1955)
Aru baiorinisuto no insho (Impression of a violinist) (Portrait of Suwa Nejiko)
Woodcut, n.d. [1946], unsigned, first edition with yellow color on the face and background, trial impression, unnumbered edition of 10, paper label on verso with typed number 4, horizontal creases, tape stains top margin, slight rubbing and soil, edges nibbled
16 x 13in. (42.6 x 35cm.) (2)
Exhibited
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "Contemporary Japanese Prints," August 29--October 22, 1972
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco, "Koshiro Onchi, 1891-1955, Woodcuts," July 11--September 20, 1964

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
George Kuwayama, Contemporary Japanese Prints (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1972), pl. 4.
Koshiro Onchi, 1891-1955, Woodcuts (San Francisco: Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, 1964), no. 23.

For another impression from the Onchi Collection see Onchi Koshiro hangashu/Prints of Onchi Koshiro (Tokyo: Keishosha, 1975), pl. 242, p.118; Shibuya Shoto Museum, ed., Tokubetsuten: Onchi Koshiro (Special Exhibition: Onchi Koshiro) (Tokyo: Shibuya Shoto Museum, 1982), pl. 58.

For an impression without yellow color in The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo see Fujii Hisae, ed., Onchi Koshiro to "Tsukuhae" (Onchi Koshiro and "Tsukuhae"), Kindai no bijutsu, 35 (Tokyo: Shibundo, 1976), pl. 13; The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, ed., Onchi Koshiro to "Tsukuhae"/Koshiro Onchi and "Tsukuhae" (Tokyo: The National Museum of Modern Art, 1976), no. 131.


Together with:

Aru baiorinisuto no insho (Impression of a violinist) (Portrait of Suwa Nejiko)

Woodcut, 1955, stamped signature Onzi, paper slip on verso inscribed in pencil in English Impression of a violinist, printed with artist's name and printer's name, Hirai Koichi, memorial edition printed in 1955, tape stains upper margin, stain upper right