Lot 210
210
YAMAGUCHI GEN (1903-1976)

POETRY OF EARLY AUTUMN CHANCE IMPRESSIONS

Details
YAMAGUCHI GEN (1903-1976)
Poetry of early autumn
Chance impressions
The first, n.d. [1947], woodcut with leaves and string, signed in pencil Roman script Gen Yamaguchi and with monogram seal GY, numbered 47/50; the second, woodcut and embossing, signed in pencil in Roman script Gen Yamaguchi, dated 1969 titled in pencil as above and numbered 5/50, sight, framed and glazed, the first with Juda collection seal on verso, light foxing and soil
15 x 15in. (39.8 x 38.4cm.); 21.7/8 x 18.3/8in. (55.4 x 46.7cm.) (2)

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
The first, Helen Merrit, Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints, The Early Years (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990), p.252.