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Fumio Kitaoka (Japanese, 1918-2007) Ships at Rest. Woodblock print, signed, dated, titled in
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Fumio Kitaoka (Japanese, 1918-2007)
Ships at Rest. Woodblock print, signed, dated, titled in Japanese, "Epreuve d'artiste" in the lower margin, matted and framed under glass overall 28" x 35-1/4".
Fumio Kitaoka (Tokyo, born,1918) is one of Japan's finest woodcut masters of the latter twentieth century. He first studied printmaking techniques and drawing under Unichi Hiratsuka (1895-1997) at the Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko. Graduating during the Second World War, Kitaoka first taught art in Tokyo and in January 1945 was posted to a similar position in occupied Manchuria. His experiences in China led to the social realist series of 17 prints Journey to the Native Country (1947) chronicling his difficult repatriation to Japan.
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Condition: Not examined out of the frame.
Ships at Rest. Woodblock print, signed, dated, titled in Japanese, "Epreuve d'artiste" in the lower margin, matted and framed under glass overall 28" x 35-1/4".
Fumio Kitaoka (Tokyo, born,1918) is one of Japan's finest woodcut masters of the latter twentieth century. He first studied printmaking techniques and drawing under Unichi Hiratsuka (1895-1997) at the Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko. Graduating during the Second World War, Kitaoka first taught art in Tokyo and in January 1945 was posted to a similar position in occupied Manchuria. His experiences in China led to the social realist series of 17 prints Journey to the Native Country (1947) chronicling his difficult repatriation to Japan.
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Condition: Not examined out of the frame.
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Fumio Kitaoka (Japanese, 1918-2007)
Ships at Rest. Woodblock print, signed, dated, titled in Japanese, "Epreuve d'artiste" in the lower margin, matted and framed under glass overall 28" x 35-1/4".
Fumio Kitaoka (Tokyo, born,1918) is one of Japan's finest woodcut masters of the latter twentieth century. He first studied printmaking techniques and drawing under Unichi Hiratsuka (1895-1997) at the Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko. Graduating during the Second World War, Kitaoka first taught art in Tokyo and in January 1945 was posted to a similar position in occupied Manchuria. His experiences in China led to the social realist series of 17 prints Journey to the Native Country (1947) chronicling his difficult repatriation to Japan.
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Condition: Not examined out of the frame.
Ships at Rest. Woodblock print, signed, dated, titled in Japanese, "Epreuve d'artiste" in the lower margin, matted and framed under glass overall 28" x 35-1/4".
Fumio Kitaoka (Tokyo, born,1918) is one of Japan's finest woodcut masters of the latter twentieth century. He first studied printmaking techniques and drawing under Unichi Hiratsuka (1895-1997) at the Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko. Graduating during the Second World War, Kitaoka first taught art in Tokyo and in January 1945 was posted to a similar position in occupied Manchuria. His experiences in China led to the social realist series of 17 prints Journey to the Native Country (1947) chronicling his difficult repatriation to Japan.
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Condition: Not examined out of the frame.
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