Lupine

 

Yoshijiro Urushibara

  1888 - 1953 (biography)

c. 1924  

color woodcut 

17 3/4 x 5 15/16" image size 

pencil, lower right; brush signed and chop within image 

No 53/60 

pencil editioned, lower left 

figure 36 in The New Wave: Twentieth-century Japanese prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection. Illustrated on page 52. 

antique-white Japanese hosho 

published 

 

19896 

SOLD

"Lupine" is one of Urushibara's self published prints. Like the later Sosaku hanga printmakers he carved and printed his own blocks, these after his own images. "Lupine" can be found in many color variations, using the same blocks much like Hiroshi Yoshida did.