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Mandarin Duck by Mataichiro Isoda

Mandarin Duck by Mataichiro Isoda

Mandarin Duck

Mataichiro Isoda

Title

Mandarin Duck

 
Artist

Mataichiro Isoda

  1907 - 1998 (biography)
Year
c. 1950  
Technique
color woodcut 
Image Size
15 9/16 x 10 3/8" image size 
Signature
artist's stamped signature and red seal in image, lower right 
Edition Size
not stated 
Annotations
publisher's stamp along far left lower sheet edge 
Reference
Uchida MI67 (p. 31) 
Paper
cream Japanese laid with Uchida watermark 
State
published 
Publisher
Uchida Art Co., Ltd., Kyoto, Japan 
Inventory ID
24147 
Price
SOLD
Description

Two Mandarin ducks visit a pond in winter, the rocks and branches surrounding them draped in snow. Though he was known primarily as a traditional Japanese painter, Mataichiro was an accomplished woodcut artist whose style was influenced by the tonality of watercolor.

Here, he depicts a Mandarin duck couple, the male in his extravagant plumage offset by his pale-hued companion and the soft winter haze punctuated by falling snowflakes.