ONCHI KOSHIRO (1891-1955)

POME NO. 8--1, CHO (POEM NO. 8--1, BUTTERFLY)

Details
ONCHI KOSHIRO (1891-1955)
Pome No. 8--1, Cho (Poem No. 8--1, Butterfly)
Woodcut, cloth and leaf, n.d. [1948], unsigned, paper label affixed to verso typed No. 5, unnumbered edition of 10, minor tape stains on upper edge
18 x 13.7/8in. (45.7 x 35.3cm.)
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. 5.
Koshiro Onchi, 1891-1955, Woodcuts (San Francisco: Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, 1964), no. 20.

For another impression see Oliver Statler, Modern Japanese Prints: An Art Reborn (Rutland, Vt. and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc., 1959), no. 13; Fujii Hisae, ed., Onchi Koshiro to "Tsukuhae" (Onchi Koshiro and "Tsukuhae"), Kindai no bijutsu, 35 (Tokyo: Shibundo, 1976), pl. 14; Onchi Koshiro to "Tsukuhae"/Koshiro Onchi and "Tsukuhae" (Tokyo: The National Museum of Modern Art, 1976), pl. 139; Onchi Koshiro hangashu/Prints of Onchi Koshiro (Tokyo: Keishosha, 1975), pl. 297, p. 151.

Another impression was sold in these Rooms, 2 November, 1996, lot 429.