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Hasui Kawase and Shin Hanga - 1102  open    Lyrical Landscape

Start    Thursday, May 23, 2013 8:00:01 PM
End    Sunday, May 26, 2013 8:00:00 PM
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Hasui Kawase's colleague, Shinsui Ito, called him, "Lyrical Traveller". His landscapes, often evening or snowy scenes, evoke the beautiful memories in the past. The quiet, peaceful landscapes he so masterfully created impress the viewer's mind the qualities forever lost in the modern society.
-- You Tube Video -- Two tourists in the World Heritage Site Himeji Castle(IN the Auction : Himeji Castle by Hasui).
Hasui Kawase, Modern Master  |  Auction Catalog

Japan Print Association Series - 1103  coming    Japan Print Association : The Best of Contemporary Japanese Prints

Start    Sunday, May 26, 2013 8:00:01 PM
End    Thursday, May 30, 2013 8:00:00 PM
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Japan Print Association (Nihon Hanga Kyokai) was established in 1931. Since then, it has been active in promoting the contemporary Japanese print artists through countless exhibitions and international exchange group shows.
Between 1989 and 1998, the association launched an ambitious project , "One Hundred Views of Tokyo: Message to the 21st Century", to record the changing aspects of the international megalopolis, Tokyo, in 100 prints by 100 artists.
The prints expressed yearly changes of Tokyo through the individuality and artistic sensitivity of each artists. The prints represented also the best in the diverse printing techniques of the modern printing art.
Message to the 21st Century

Japanese Prints - 1104  coming    Magic of Art

Start    Thursday, May 30, 2013 8:00:01 PM
End    Sunday, June 2, 2013 8:00:00 PM
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Works by leading artists from Edo era to contemporary.-- In This Auction -- We featured Bakufu Ono's famous and coveted fish series, "Dai Nippon Gyorui Gashu", first edition. Not only the fish ensusiasts, but also the woodblock print collectors can marvel the beauty of the fish in natural environment and the highest woodblock printing skills ever achieved, which unfortunately seem to be forever lost.
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Japanese Prints - 1105  coming    Magic of Art

Start    Sunday, June 2, 2013 8:00:01 PM
End    Thursday, June 6, 2013 8:00:00 PM
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Works by leading artists from Edo era to contemporary.
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Modern Japanese Prints - 1106  coming    Originals only.

Start    Thursday, June 6, 2013 8:00:01 PM
End    Sunday, June 9, 2013 8:00:00 PM
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Despite the crashing defeat in World War II, the Japanese artists have never lost their enthusiasm and creativity. The Shin Hanga and the Sosaku Hanga movements had already paved the clear ways for the young Japanese artists.

In the prestigious international print biennales in Lugano and Sao Paulo, the Japanese artists suddenly dominated the scene and took major awards by presenting the unique mixture of the Western art and the traditional Ukiyo-e and Nihon-ga painting.

-- You Tube Video -- Lee UFan, the renowned modernist, is preparing his exhibition at Guggenheim Museum. Item #56600.
Contemporary Artists in Japan

Sosaku Hanga - Tadashige Ono Special - 1108  coming    Creative and Free Spirits - Impressionists in Japan

Start    Thursday, June 13, 2013 8:00:01 PM
End    Sunday, June 16, 2013 8:00:00 PM
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At the first glance, Sosaku Hanga prints look unskilled and not refined. However, under the lack of sophisticated technique, one can see the great individualistic styles of the artists. .

This auction features works of Ono Tadashige. Although he was not overtly politically active, his dark harsh depiction of everyday life and landscape resembled the mood of the proletaliart movement and the modern city life. Many other great works that you have not seen elsewhere.
Sosaku Hanga - Away from the Tradition

Japanese Prints - 1110  coming    -- Earthquake Special --

Start    Thursday, June 20, 2013 8:00:01 PM
End    Sunday, June 23, 2013 8:00:00 PM
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Works by leading artists from Edo era to contemporary.
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