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Sold Out.      Mesmerizing paintings from the high altitude plains.

"The price is also growing quickly in the last tow years. His painting always be ordered by which is still on easel. I have fortunately obtained only one piece for sell in Artelino." (original message from our artist agent in China).

We will be able to offer in our First Grand Auction of contemporary Chinese paintings ONE painting by Zhang Yuping. Read his biography and see more images.
Zhang Yuping - Biography and Paintings

From the Generation Comics.      I like that! - Dieter Wanczura

"I love painting. It has becomes the most important thing in my life. I do not know what else could make me happy other than painting. I am so happy when I paint, because it is simple."

"I love to paint little things from my daily life, especially girls, dolls and cats. Sometimes I think women are just like cats. Cats are only pursuing food and women are pursuing beauty."

(Artist statement by Wang Ka who represents the latest art movement in contemporary Chinese art - Generation Comics.
'Read more about Wang Ka and the Generation Comics

Shi Leung - Young Emerging Artist      People will like her works. (foreword for a solo exhibition in Beijing).

"I do not have the eyes to penetrate this world but I have two hardworking hands."

"As for the unsatisfying works, I hope they are like the fallen leaves in autumn, which fall on the floor and are buried deep."

Two statements by young female artist Shi Leung. Read her biography.
Shi Leung - Coming Feb 12, 2012

From the Uchida Family Archives      Rare and Unique Lots

We have managed again to get another batch of unique prints from the Uchida family archives. This is really a unique chance for collectors of Japanese prints from the first half of the 20th century to win for themselves a piece from Japanese printmaking history.
Auction Catalog

Thank you!      Quality creates record results.

Thank you for a great auction of shin hanga from the Robert O. Muller estate. The auction ended with 87% sold and 40% above reserve. - Yorie and Dieter
Auction Catalog

Contemporary Chinese Paintings  NEW    This is really hot!

We are currently preparing our first Grand Auction of Contemporary Chinese Paintings. The auction will take place presumably in February and offer about 30 paintings by contemporary Chinese artists. Reserves will be somewhere from $ 1,000 to $ 10,000. We cooperate directly with artists and art agents who have been familiar with the Chinese art scene for many, many years.

The image shows a painting by Chinese female artist Wong Mee.
More about Contemporary Chinese Paintings Auction

From the Uchida Family Archives      Rare and Unique Lots

For auction 958, November 13 until November 20 we could win another consignment with material from the "Uchida Family Archives".

In this auction we include an extremely interesting group of sketches, paintings and trial proofs from the Uchida family archives.
It is unique opportunity to be able to offer this group of museum quality material which has not been traded or offered anywhere else before.

Uchida Han is an important Japanese publishing company with branches in both Tokyo and Kyoto. Founded in 1919, the company is still in existence today as an active publisher of shin-hanga in addition to publishing re-strikes of Edo period ukiyo-e prints. Uchida family has been a major force in introducing and promoting mainly major Kyoto school shin hanga artist such as Tokuriki Tomikichiro, Asada Benji, Ito Nisaburo, Hasegawa Konobu (Sadanobu), Eiichi Kotozuka and many others.
The Kyoto Shin Hanga School probably offers the best value for money when purchasing shin hanga prints. It is an area of shin hanga publishing which until recently few academics have done research into, now it seems as this about to change with several people researching into Kyoto print publishing from the Taisho 1912-1926 period until the 1960s.
The present auction gives you an opportunity to be in on the ground floor of this exciting field and a possibility to acquire some fabulous material at rockbottom estimates.
Auction Catalog

Yokohama-e - Englishman      Images of the first foreigners in Japan.

Yokohama-e are Japanese prints which expressed the opening of Japan in Meiji era after the Treaty of Kanagawa in 1854. Japanese people had never seen foreigners before nor Western technical achievements like locomotives or iron ships. Yokohama-e met a huge public demand for images of foreigners and Western-style ships, maps, leisure and entertainment.

The current auction # 944 has a nice woodblock print by Yoshitora Utagawa, one of the masters of yokohama-e.
Yokohama-e in Auction # 944

Hasui Kawase - Blind as a Bat      Great Landscape Artist of the 20th century.

The current auction of Japanese prints has among others a nice selection of woodblock prints by Hasui KAWASE - 1883-1957. He is generally seen as one of the greatest - or even the greatest, on a level with Hiroshige - Japanese print artists of the 20th century in the genre of landscape prints. Here are a few interesting facts about this outstanding artist.

HOW HIS PRINTS WERE MADE
Hasui Kawase did not use any photographs but made sketches from the landscape scenes on the spot. For this he traveled a lot. In the evening he then colored the sketches. Back in Tokyo skilled carvers took these colored sketches to carve the blocks - one block for each color. Also the later printing was done by professional printers. Hasui remarked himself how surprised he sometimes was about the outcome. In some cases he thought the print had come out nicer than his sketch and vice versa.

BAD EYESIGHT
Hasui was a short man with bad eyesight. In order to recognize details he had to go close to the object. When he drew a sketch he usually started with the general outlines and then added the details by and by by going close to the object.

HOW MUCH MONEY DID HE MAKE?
In those days - not much different from our days - a printmaker could not become a rich man with his craft. But Hasui's prints sold well, and Watanabe practiced a payment scheme with Hasui with which he participated in the success (or failure) of the actual sales of a design. Overall, Hasui could live from the income as a woodblock printmaker. He considered himself the only artist in Japan at that time who could make a living from woodblock printmaking.

HE LOST HIS HOME TWICE
Personally Hasui was not much in the luck. He had lost his home in 1923 when the Great Kanto Earthquake hit the Tokyo area. And then he lost his second home in 1945 due to the allied bombing raids of Tokyo.

BIOGRAPHY Hasui Kawase Biography.

HASUI PRINTS IN CURRENT AUCTION:
The current auction # 943 has a nice selection of 5 woodblock prints by Hasui. Click on the link or the image.
Woodblock prints by Hasui Kawase

No Tea? Really?      ByTomikichiro Toluriki 1902-1999.

The current auction has a print by Tomikichiro Tokuriki 1902-1999, titled Ichiriki Tea House. It is a limited edition (6/100) and signed by Tokuriki Tomikichiro in pencil. It is rather large, has no condition problems and is offered for a reserve of just $200.

Such prints are rare! And it is beautiful in my view with these strong colors against a black background. Nevertheless NOBODY has noticed it yet! It would be a huge pity to return this print to its owner.

Who is the knowledgeable, tasteful, cultured, good-looking, smart person who will place a cool bid on this print?

By the way, Tokuriki Tomikichiro operated a small shop himself at the entrance of his family estate in Kyoto where he served and sold tea!
Tea House by Tokuriki Tomikichiro

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