SEKINO JUN'ICHIRO (1914-1988)

NIWATORI TO SHONEN (A BOY AND HIS ROOSTER) SHIGA NAOYA

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SEKINO JUN'ICHIRO (1914-1988)
Niwatori to shonen (A boy and his rooster)
Shiga Naoya
Woodcut, the first signed in white pigment in Roman script Jun. Sekino and signed and dated in pencil in Roman script Junichiro Sekino 1956, sealed Jun, numbered 3/30, IIme tat (second state), 27.1/8 x 20in. (68.9 x 52.7cm.); the second, n.d. [1977], signed in pencil in Roman script Jun. Sekino, sealed Jun and numbered 5/75, watermarked Jun. Sekino, 31 x 24.7/8in. (79.3 x 63.2cm.) (2)

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For another impression of the first see Oliver Statler, Modern Japanese Prints: An Art Reborn (Rutland, Vt. and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, 1980), no. 42; Sekino Jun'ichiro, Sekino Jun'ichiro hangashu (Sekino Jun'ichiro Prints) (Tokyo: no publisher, n.d.), no. 14; of the second see Takahashi Seiichiro et al., Kindai Nihon hanga taikei (Compendium of modern Japanese prints), vol. 3 (Tokyo: Mainichi Shimbunsha, 1976), pl. 256; Robert and Yoko McClain, Thirty-six Portrait Prints by Sekino Jun'ichiro (Eugene: University of Oregon Museum of Art, 1977), pl. 17.