Yamaguchi Susumu (1897-1983)
A black and white tabby cat sleeps on a wooden veranda in the warm light of the late autumn sun. Persimmon (or kaki) fruits are hung out to dry, casting their shadows on the richly grained wooden wall behind.
Untitled (Neko to Hoshigaki - Cat and dried Persimmons)
Seal: Yamaguchi Susumu and Yama (within image)
Printing blocks carved by the artist.
Publisher: Keisho Gallery, Tokyo (dry stamp in bottom right margin).
Date: first 1960, this a one-time special limited edition in 1980
Edition: 183/200
Original Japanese colour woodblock print. Size: 29,3 x 38,5 cm (image), 33,8 x 41,7 cm (overall)
Very good impression and colours, on thick handmade paper. With a rectangular stamp "Keisho Gallery" (of the publisher Keishô-sha?) at lower right. Upper margin a little bit rolled due to the paper, minimal toning resp. tiny spots at margins, overall very good condition.
On the artist: Oliver Statler, Modern Japanese Prints: An Art Reborn, Rutland, Vermont/Tokyo 1956, pp. 109-114. Merritt/Yamada, Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900-1975, Honolulu 1992, p. 170.
€ 1.100,-