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Passing Rain by Chiura Obata

Passing Rain by Chiura Obata

Passing Rain

Chiura Obata

Title

Passing Rain

 
Artist

Chiura Obata

  1885 - 1975 (biography)
Year
1930  
Technique
color woodcut 
Image Size
10 15/16 x 15 3/4" image size 
Signature
unsigned 
Edition Size
proof outside of the published edition of 100 
Annotations
stamp verso: Made and Printed in Japan at Takamizawa Color-Print Studio 
Reference
No. 21 in Obata's World Landcape Series America and No. 13 in Obata's personal list. It is illustrated on page 32 of "Obata's Yosemite" 
Paper
antique-white laid made by Fukui Sugiwara in northern Japan 
State
printer's proof 
Publisher
Takamizawa Print Works, Japan 
Inventory ID
ColCo106 
Price
SOLD
Description

Passing Rain, High Sierra, USA required 114 separated printing sequences and was included in Obata's portfolio of color woodcuts, World Landscape Series, America. According to Driesbach, there were reportedly 400 impressions of each of the 35 compositions made, with only the finest 100 selected for the portfolios. The project employed more than 32 carvers and 40 printers over eighteen months.

Since this impression is not signed, but has the printer's stamp on the verso, it is possibly one of the rejected proofs. The paper has a number of small, pinholes which have been expertly repaired and are not visible from the recto.

Death's Grave Pass is listed as No. 21 in Obata's World Landcape Series America and No. 13 in Obata's personal list.

It is a very fine, fresh impression.