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Kigen NAKAGAWA  -  1892-1972      Japanese Fauvist

Kigen Nakagawa

Kigen Nakagawa 1892-1972

Kigen Nakagawa was born in Nagano prefecture. He was a student of Ishii Hakutei and even for a brief period, studied under the famous Fauvist artist Henri Matisse in France in 1919. He worked as a painter and printmaker of moku-hanga (self-made woodblock prints). The moku-hanga were made in the 1930s and 1940s and are rare.
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Notes: also Norimoto Nakagawa

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Literature sources used for artist biographies:

• Merritt, Helen and Yamada, Nanako, "Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints 1900-1975", University of Hawaii Press, 1995, ISBN 0-8248-1732-X
• Lane, Richard, "Images from the Floating World: The Japanese Print", Fribourg, 1978, ISBN 0-914427-54-7
• Laurance, P.Roberts, "A Dictionary of Japanese Artists", John Weatherhill Inc., New York, 1976
• Frances Blakemore "Who is Who in Modern Japanese Prints", John Weatherhill, New York and Tokyo, 1975. ISBN 0-8348-0101-9
• Annual CWAJ catalogs