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'The Court of the Mosque of Memory' (in collaboration with Frank Brangwyn) by Yoshijiro Urushibara

The Court of the Mosque of Memory (in collaboration with Frank Brangwyn) by Yoshijiro Urushibara

'The Court of the Mosque of Memory' (in collaboration with Frank Brangwyn)

Yoshijiro Urushibara

Title

'The Court of the Mosque of Memory' (in collaboration with Frank Brangwyn)

 
Artist

Yoshijiro Urushibara

  1888 - 1953 (biography)
Year
1924  
Technique
color woodcut 
Image Size
6 1/2 x 8 7/16" image size 
Signature
pencil, lower left 
Edition Size
90/250 plus 20 special proofs 
Annotations
 
Reference
Binyon, plate 5 
Paper
antique-white Japanese hosho 
State
published 
Publisher
John Lane: The Bodley Head Limited, London. 
Inventory ID
19513 
Price
SOLD
Description

This color woodcut was image number 5 and was included in a portfolio titled 'Ten Woodcuts by Yoshijiro Urushibara' done in 1924 and published by John Lane in London in 1924. The portfolio included an introduction by Laurence Binyon. The woodcuts were cut and printed by Urushibara after watercolors by his friend and collaborator, British artist Frank Brangwyn.

Urushibara hand printed an edition of 250 plus 20 artist's proofs that were not offered for sale. He used different Japanes papers and signed 7 of the images with pencil, in the European tradition and the other 3 with his seal signature in red ink, the Japanese way.

The "Mosque of Memory" might well be the courtyard of the Mosque of Ibu Touloun (Ibn Tulun) which was built by Ahmad ibn Tulun in Cairo, Egypt in 879 AD. Urushibara did another woodcut of this mosque for this series - or it could be from one of the many mosques Brangwyn drew in Constantinople (Istanbul) in his travels throughout the middle east.