NAKAYAMA TADASHI (b. 1927)

KAZE HARAMU (UMA) (BLOWING [HORSES]) OSO NO GOGO (A) (AFTERNOON DRESSED IN YELLOW ATTIRE [A]) UNTITLED (GIRL AND BIRDS) KAZE [SHOJO] (GIRL IN THE WIND) UNTITLED (GIRL IN YELLOW)

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NAKAYAMA TADASHI (b. 1927)
Kaze haramu (Uma) (Blowing [Horses])
Oso no gogo (A) (Afternoon dressed in yellow attire [A])
Untitled (Girl and birds)
Kaze [Shojo] (Girl in the wind)
Untitled (Girl in yellow)
Woodcut, some with metallic powders, all signed in pencil in Roman script T. Nakayama, the first dated 1956 and numbered 16/50, sealed Nakayama Tadashi on verso, 32 x 22in. (81.3 x 57.8cm.); the second dated 1963 and numbered 1/55, sealed Nakayama, 39 x 26in. (99.6 x 66.8cm.); the third dated 1957, sealed Nakayama on verso, 13 x 10in. (34.3 x 26cm.); the fourth dated 1965 and numbered 75/85, sealed Nakayama on verso, 7.1/8 x 12in. (18.1 x 31.1cm.); the fifth dated 1956, 9 x 11.1/8in. (24.1 x 28.3cm.), slight tape stains and center fold, the second slightly creased, the third with slightly toned edge, the fifth laid down, mat burn and with damaged edges (5)
Sale room notice
The 4th print, Kaze, is laid down--paper and backing board are split horizontally across bottom margin just above signature

Lot Essay

For another impression of the first from the Juda Collection, see George Kuwayama, Contemporary Japanese Prints (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1972), no. 36. p. 83.; and for other impressions see Kappy and Marshall Hendricks, Tadashi Nakayama, His Life and Work (Bethesda, Md.: Irongate, 1982), nos. 2, 47 and A.