Lot 466: Mizufune Rokushu (1912-1980)

Haru no koi/Spring carp

Tsuru (Crane)

Ishi no koto/Stone harp
Woodcuts, n.d., the first and third signed in pencil in Roman script R. Mizufune, the second Mizufune, numbered 3/30, 14/30 and 20/30 respectively--good impressions and color, the second lightly scuffed and stained in margins, the third creased bottom corners
29 x 20 1/2 in. (73.8 x 52cm.), first; 23 1/2 x 17 5/8in. (59.8 x 44.8cm.), second; 23 3/4 x 16 7/8in. (60.5 x 43cm.), third (3)

The third, Northern Illinois University, Swen Parson Gallery, DeKalb, Illinois, "Twentieth Century Moku-Hanga," 1982.10.7-11.7

Published:
Helen Merritt, Twentieth Century Moku-Hanga (De Kalb, Il.: Northern Illinois University, 1982), no. 48.
_____, Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints, The Early Years (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990, colorplate opposite p. 69.

Previously sold in these Rooms, The Helen and Felix Juda Collection of Japanese Modern and Contemporary Prints, 22 April 1998, lots 323, 324 and 327 respectively