Kasamatsu Shirô (1898-1991)
A long-haired black Persian cat sitting on the wooden railing of a veranda, in the garden behind a plum tree in full bloom.
Title: Kuroi neko (Black cat) (handwritten in pencil in bottom margin)
Signature: Shiro Kasamatsu (handwritten pencil signature in bottom margin), Shiro (top right within image)
Seal: Shirô (top right) and Shirô Hanga (bottom margin)
Carved, printed and published by the artist (Shirô Hanga)
Date: 1957
Edition: 11/100
Original Japanese colour woodblock print. Size: 49,5 x 37,5 cm (image), 53,3 x 40,8 cm (overall)
Very nice impression and colours, on heavy paper, with full margins. Paper a little age-toned, mainly from verso. A few printing colour smudges in margins. Overall very good condition.
A rare Sôsaku-Hanga print by the artist. Grund S-28. Tsukui Nobuko, Kasamatsu Shirô hanga mokuroku, 2002, pp. 30 and 60.
€ 1.950,-