SEKINO Jun'ichiro (1914-1988)
Rice Field. 1962.
- Category
- Japanese | 20th Century
- Publisher
- Self published.
large colour etching and woodcut, 60.7 cm × 47.0 cm
Excellent impression, colour. A light mat line in the border; otherwise very good condition.
In April 1961, Sekino designed a series of woodcuts titled Ine (Rice Fields); each plate was a different colour. A year later, he created this detailed etching/colour woodcut on the same subject, also using the same strong yellow pallette as the woodcut. He studied etching under Kon Junzo and surpassed many of his sosaku-hanga colleagues in the technical process of print making. Signed Jun Sekino. Seal: Jun. Edition 9/35. Ref: Art Gallery New South Wales, Australia.
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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