





Shotei | Butterflies and flowers
高橋松亭 Takahashi Shotei (1871–1945)
蝶恋花
Butterflies and flowers
1926
木版画 | 横绘大判 | 26.5m x 38.5cm
Woodblock-print | Yoko-e | 26.5m x 38.5cm
初版;整体品相非常好;边缘有些许黄化和黄斑;罕见
Early edition and impression; fine color; slight toning and very minor foxing in the margins, otherwise in great condition; rare.
$5,500
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高橋松亭 Takahashi Shotei (1871–1945)
蝶恋花
Butterflies and flowers
1926
木版画 | 横绘大判 | 26.5m x 38.5cm
Woodblock-print | Yoko-e | 26.5m x 38.5cm
初版;整体品相非常好;边缘有些许黄化和黄斑;罕见
Early edition and impression; fine color; slight toning and very minor foxing in the margins, otherwise in great condition; rare.
$5,500
Interested in purchasing?
Please contact us.
高橋松亭 Takahashi Shotei (1871–1945)
蝶恋花
Butterflies and flowers
1926
木版画 | 横绘大判 | 26.5m x 38.5cm
Woodblock-print | Yoko-e | 26.5m x 38.5cm
初版;整体品相非常好;边缘有些许黄化和黄斑;罕见
Early edition and impression; fine color; slight toning and very minor foxing in the margins, otherwise in great condition; rare.
$5,500
Interested in purchasing?
Please contact us.
Takahashi Shotei (1871–1945)
Takahashi Shotei may have once been the most well-known Japanese woodblock print artist in the world, even if the Westerners who flooded Japan in the early part of the 20th Century didn’t know his name.
Watanabe Shozaburo hired him to design shinsaku-hanga (souvenir prints) to fulfill tourists’ demand for Ukiyoe-style woodblock landscape prints similar to those created in the past by masters of that genre, especially Hiroshige. These prints sold extremely well to this new audience, and were often in unusual sizes, to striking effect. (We wonder what Hiroshige would have thought of them.)
Shotei eventually took the name Hiroaki and produced hundreds of designs, but the blocks were destroyed in the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923. This is when Watanabe assigned him the unusual task of recreating his own works. He lived until 1945.