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Munakata Shiko — Still-life with flowers | Showa period, 20th century
Munakata Shiko

Still-life with flowers | Showa period, 20th century

Munakata Shiko's 'Still-life with flowers' is a woodblock print with hand-applied color from the Showa period, created in 1962. The work exemplifies traditional Japanese printmaking techniques combined with the artist's distinctive modernist sensibility.

Medium
woodblock print, sumizuri-e, with hand-applied colour, singed in pencil to the lefr in Japanese Shiiko and in Roman script Munakata, sealed Hogan Muna Shiko, dated 1962.6.7, and with artist's penciled pine needles and field chrysanthemum (nogiku) mark
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Auction House · Sotheby's

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Pursuit of an Ideal: Fine Japanese Works of Art

October 26, 2021

Estimate: $1,500 – $2,000

Lot 122

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Munakata Shiko, Still-life with flowers | Showa period, 20th century

Munakata Shiko's 'Still-life with flowers' is a woodblock print with hand-applied color from the Showa period, created in 1962. The work exemplifies traditional Japanese printmaking techniques combined with the artist's distinctive modernist sensibility.

Medium
woodblock print, sumizuri-e, with hand-applied colour, singed in pencil to the lefr in Japanese Shiiko and in Roman script Munakata, sealed Hogan Muna Shiko, dated 1962.6.7, and with artist's penciled pine needles and field chrysanthemum (nogiku) mark
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Sotheby's, New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris

Related themes

Hand-Colored, Japanese, Traditional, Botanical, Nature, Monochromatic, Woodblock Print, Flowers, Mid-Century, Still Life

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