Description: "FIRE FOXES" HIROSHIGE, 1797 - 1858 JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINT ON PAPER. THIS IS A WONDERFUL WORK ON A LIGHTWEIGHT PAPER.THE COLORS ARE VIVID AND THE LINES ARE CRISP.PLEASE ENLARGE THE IMAGE TO GET A BETTER IDEA.YOU CAN FEEL THE BLOCK IMPRESSION WHEN YOU GENTLY FEEL THE EDGES OF THE IMAGE PAPER SIZE: 7 1/2 X 10 3/8 INCHESTHE REVERSE HAS BEEN REINF0RCED WITH ACONSERVATION GRADE RICE TAPE. SEE IMAGES. Hiroshige広重Memorial portrait of Hiroshige by KunisadaBornAndō Tokutarō 1797 Edo, JapanDied12 October 1858 (aged 60–61) Edo, JapanNationality (legal)JapaneseEducationToyohiroKnown forPaintingPrintingNotable workThe Fifty-three Stations of the TōkaidōThe Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso KaidōOne Hundred Famous Views of EdoMovementUtagawa schoolUtagawa Hiroshige Japanese: [ɯtaɡawa]), born Andō Tokutarō (安藤 徳太郎; 1797 – 12 October 1858), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition.Hiroshige is best known for his horizontal-format landscape series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō and for his vertical-format landscape series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. The subjects of his work were atypical of the ukiyo-e genre, whose typical focus was on beautiful women, popular actors, and other scenes of the urban pleasure districts of Japan's Edo period (1603–1868). The popular series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai was a strong influence on Hiroshige's choice of subject, though Hiroshige's approach was more poetic and ambient than Hokusai's bolder, more formal prints. Subtle use of color was essential in Hiroshige's prints, often printed with multiple impressions in the same area and with extensive use of bokashi (color gradation), both of which were rather labor-intensive techniques.For scholars and collectors, Hiroshige's death marked the beginning of a rapid decline in the ukiyo-e genre, especially in the face of the westernization that followed the Meiji Restoration of 1868. Hiroshige's work came to have a marked influence on western European painting towards the close of the 19th century as a part of the trend in Japonism. Western European artists, such as Manet and Monet, collected and closely studied Hiroshige's compositions: Vincent van Gogh, for instance, painted copies of some Hiroshige prints.
Price: 250 USD
Location: Hilo, Hawaii
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Primary Material: Paper
Color: Multi-Color
Original/Reproduction: Antique Original
Region of Origin: Japan
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