Bernard Leach (1887-1979)

PORTRAIT OF MUSHANOKOJI SANEATSU

Details

Bernard Leach (1887-1979)
Portrait of Mushanokoji Saneatsu
Soft ground etching, signed in the plate Leach, numbered 6/25, circa 1916
11.3 x 7.3cm. (plate)

Literature

Exhibition Catalogue, The English Arts and Crafts Movement and Hamada Shoji, (Japan, 1997-8), p.110, no.138

Exhibited

The English Arts and Crafts Movement and Hamada Shoji, Japan, 1997-8

Sale room notice

Please note this etching is from a later edition of 25 postumously printed to the order of Janet Leach.

Lot Essay

Mushanokoji Saneatsu (1885-1976) was the son of Viscount Musanokoji Sanezane. He was a novelist, playwright, artist and philosopher, and co-founder of the Shirakaba literary group and its magazine of the same name.

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