SEKINO Jun'ichiro (1914-1988)
Konosuke Hinatsu, 1952
- Category
- Japanese | Miscellaneous
- Publisher
- Self printed.
Large print., 51.0 cm × 71.0 cm
Excellent impression, colour and condition. Mica grey ground.
A portrait of the poet Kōnosuke Hinatsu by Jun'ichiro Sekino, printed in 1952. Hinatsu Konosuke was a professor of English at Waseda University. His work was influenced by English writers such as Wilde and Edgar Allen-Poe. He also translated many works of English literature into Japanese. Edition 32 of 50. Signed in pencil with red seal. Reference; Behind Paper Walls: Early Works and Portraits by Jun’Ichiro Sekino and The Male Image (Amsterdam, Nihon no hanga exh. cat. 6, 2011), fig. 31; Sekino Jun'ichirô hanga sakuhin shû (1997), list #129, photo p. 140. For another impression see Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
£1650