MUNAKATA SHIKO (1903-1975)

SELF PORTRAIT

Details

MUNAKATA SHIKO (1903-1975)
Self Portrait
Color woodcut with hand-applied color, n.d. [possibly 1965], signed in pencil in Japanese Shiko and in Roman script Munakata, pine needles and field chrysanthemum symbols, inscribed in pencil in left margin Munakata Shiko hanban (printer) and sealed Muna Shiko and Zakkado, inscribed in English in the block across the top of the image FOR MISSISSIPPI [the river] ST. LOUIS...4.7, loosely laid down on paper which bears date in pencil 1971--.2.7.8, sealed Muna Shiko and Zakkado shu
12 x 10in. (31.8 x 26.7cm.)

Exhibited

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "Munakata Shiko 1903-1975/Ikeda Masuo b. 1934," March 14--June 16, 1978

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
George Kuwayama, Munakata Shiko 1903-1975/Ikeda Masuo b. 1934 (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1978), cat. no. 26.

For a very similar self portrait of 1965 see Zakka no saku/The Artist and the Man, Munakata Shiko zenshu/The Complete Works of Shiko Munakata, vol. 12 (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1979), pl. 18.

Munakata visited the United States for four months in 1965 under the auspices of the Japan Society, New York and Washington University, Saint Louis. In Saint Louis, he was guest lecturer at Washington University.