Fumio Kitaoka - Fishing Boat and Green Crow

Fishing Boat and Green Crow

Fumio Kitaoka's original woodcut, Fishing Boat and Green Crow is printed upon thick, hand-made, mulberry paper and with full margins as printed and published in 1964 in the limited edition of two hundred and ten impressions. It is signed, titled, dated and numbered, by Kitaoka in pencil. Fishing Boat and Green Crow is a fine, original example of both the landscape and woodcut art created by one of Japan's finest woodcut masters of the latter twentieth century, Fumio Kitaoka.

Original Colour Woodcut by the Japanese Artist, Fumio Kitaoka.

Fishing Boat and Green Crow

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Title:	Fishing Boat and Green Crow
Artist:	Kitaoka, Fumio (Tokyo, born,1918)
Date:	1964
Medium:	Original Colour Woodcut
Edition:	Limited Edition of two hundred and ten impressions, Numbered 4/210.
Note:	Fumio Kitaoka: One of Japan's finest woodcut masters of the latter twentieth century, Fumio Kitaoka first studied printmaking techniques and drawing under Unichi Hiratsuka at the Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko. Graduating during the Second World War, Kitaoka first taught art in Tokyo and was then posted to a similar position in occupied Manchuria. At the end of the war, he returned to Tokyo and attended the evening classes of one of Japan's most influential woodcut artists of the time, Koshiro Onchi (1891-1955). Several years later, Fumio Kitaoka moved to Paris to study wood engraving techniques at the Ecole des Beaux Arts.
	Upon returning to Japan (c. 1957), Fumio Kitaoka firmly established himself as a contemporary master of the woodcut. His woodcut art was almost immediately distinguished for his use of perspective and receding space combined with the bold and almost sculptural effects he achieved by printing his blocks under very high pressure. As one can see in Fishing Boat and Green Crow, this lends a powerful, almost three dimensional effect to foreground objects.
	For years, the woodcut art of Fumio Kitaoka has been the subject of many exhibitions in Japan, America and Europe. Museums that list his woodcuts within their permanent collections include, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Art Institute of Chicago, the National Museum, Warsaw and the Japanese Museum of Israel. Fumio Kitaoka has been named an honorary member of the Japan Print association and has served as Director of the Japanese Artists Association.
Size:	15 1/2 X 21 1/4 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
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Buy Now	Price: $495.00 US
Condition:	Printed upon thick, hand-made, mulberry paper and with full margins as printed and published in 1964 in the limited edition of 210 impressions. Signed, titled, dated and numbered, '4/210', by the artist in pencil along the lower margin. Containing some creasing, particularly within the whitened areas of the boat. This creasing, I suspect, was caused by the pressure of the block(s) upon the softened mulberry paper. Else, a magnificent full colour impression and in excellent condition throughout. Fishing Boat and Green Crow stands as a prime example of the famous Japanese woodcut art of Fumio Kitaoka.
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