Flower of Leek (aka: "Cat and Leeks")

 

Shiro Kasamatsu

  1898 - 1991

1956  

color woodcut 

14 11/16 x 9 7/8" image 

pencil, lower right 

B 44/45 

red artist's seal, lower left; pencil dated; pencil titled in Japanese; editioned 

Grund #S-11 

fibrous antique-white hosho 

published 

artist 

19424 

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This bold woodcut is of flowering leeks, in the background prowls a black cat. This impression is editioned B 44/45 and is probably a second printing, a color variation on the first printing of 200. There is also an edition which is not numbered which is in blue colors.