AZECHI UMETARO (b. 1902)

YARIGATAKE KODOMO (CHILD) YAMAGOYA NO ROJIN (OLD MAN IN A MOUNTAIN CABIN) SHIROI ZO (FIGURE IN WHITE) SHIROI ZO (FIGURE IN WHITE) YAMAOTOKO (MOUNTAIN GUIDE "A") MURA NO OTOKO (VILLA

Details

AZECHI UMETARO (b. 1902)
Yarigatake
Kodomo (Child)
Yamagoya no rojin (Old man in a mountain cabin)
Shiroi zo (Figure in white)
Shiroi zo (Figure in white)
Yamaotoko (Mountain guide "A")
Mura no otoko (Villager)
Akai boshi (Red hat)
Pikkeru motsu otoko (Man holding a pick-axe)
Woodcut, each signed in pencil in Roman letters U. Azechi and sealed U, dated in pencil and titled in pencil as above on verso, the first dated -52, numbered 23/50, 16 x 12in. (42.6 x 31.8cm.); the second signed in pencil in Roman script U. Azechi and with printed signature in Japanese Azechi Umetaro and with stamped signature in Roman print Azechi, n.d. [circa 1945], 9.1/8 x 6.5/8in. (23.2 x 16.8cm.); the third dated -53, numbered 14/30, 22.1/8 x 16in. (56.2 x 40.8cm.); the fourth dated -63, unnumbered, 11 x 7in. (29.8 x 17.8cm.); the fifth dated -58, numbered 10/20, 30.3/8 x 20.3/8in. (77.2 x 51.8cm.); the sixth dated 1953 numbered 10/50, 17 x 12.3/8in. (43.8 x 31.4cm.); the seventh dated 1954 and numbered 8/50, 17 x 12.3/8in. (43.2 x 31.4cm.); the eighth dated -63, 9.7/8 x 7.1/8in. (25.1 x 18.1cm); the ninth dated -63, 9.5/8 x 7in. (24.4 x 17.8cm.), slight tape stains (9)

Provenance

The first, Dr. Robert Jerry, San Francisco
The second, Azechi Umetaro
Dr. Robert Jerry, San Francisco

Lot Essay

For other impressions see Kawano Minoru et al., eds., Azechi Umetaro zen hangashu (The complete prints of Azechi Umetaro) (Tokyo: Machida shiritsu kokusai bijutsukan and Nankai hoso Azechi Umetaro kinen bijutsukan, 1991), no. 191, p. 279, pl. 196, p. 280, pl. 268, p. 113, pl. 197, p. 281.

For another impression of the sixth, Yamaotoko, see Donald Jenkins, Images of a Changing World: Japanese Prints of the Twentieth Century (Portland Ore.: Portland Art Museum, 1983) no. 84.