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Lot 646

[JAPANESE PRINTS—MODERN] MICHENER, James A, ed. The Modern Japanese Print: An Appreciation. Rutland, VT: Tuttle, 1962.

Lot 646

[JAPANESE PRINTS—MODERN]
MICHENER, James A, ed. The Modern Japanese Print: An Appreciation. Rutland, VT: Tuttle, 1962.

Status:

Closed

Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000

Estimate$2,000 – $3,000

Status

Closed

[JAPANESE PRINTS—MODERN]
MICHENER, James A, ed. The Modern Japanese Print: An Appreciation. Rutland, VT: Tuttle, 1962.

547 x 393 mm. With text on Japanese vellum and containing ten original tipped-in prints by ten artists: Hiratsuka, Un'Ichi, Maekawa Sempan, Mori Yoshitoshi, Watanabe Sadao, Kinoshita Tomio, Shima Tamami, Azechi Umetaro, Iwami Reika, Yoshida Masaji, and Maki Haku, each signed and individually numbered by the respective artist. Original tricolor cloth covered gilt lettered boards, wooden slipcase (marked, split at join).

RARE LIMITED EDITION number 453 of 510 copies, 475 of which were for sale. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND TEN ARTISTS.

Property from a Private Collection, Chicago, Illinois

Overall good condition, the slipcase marked and split.

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Ms. Wu joined the firm in 2014, after working as a specialist in the Asian Works of Art Department of an East Coast auction house. She researches, appraises, and sells Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, and South East Asian works of art, including jades, bronzes, ceramics, paintings, armor, and furniture. Throughout her career, Ms. Wu has achieved record prices for several prominent estates and collections, including the Estate of Frank G. Mertes, Sr., Winona, Minnesota; the Chinese Painting Collection of Ms. Yuan Jiaying and Mr. Li Guoyuan, Chicago; the Estate of Hisazo Nagatani, Chicago, and the Asian Art Collection deaccessioned from the Strong Museum of Play, Rochester, New York.