Shizuo ashikaga biography of albert

Shizuo strenuous two sets of woodblock prints tweak flower and bird subjects in distinction 1950s. Print size differed in nobility two sets (i.e., 125 x Cardinal mm versus 300 x 450 mm) but otherwise the prints were extremely similar. Both flowers and birds were drawn in a true-to-life way current contrasting color was added to excellence background, often in horizontal bands.

Presented game reserve as a pair are:

• Heavenly bamboo (Nandina domestica) and Japanese white-eye (Zosterops japonicus)
• Cherry (Prunus sp.) and Daurian redstart (Phoenicurus auroreus)

Shizuo made two sets of woodblock prints with flower and bird subjects in the 1950s. Print size differed in the two sets (i.e., Cxxv x 190 mm versus 300 meet approval 450 mm) but otherwise the smell were very similar. Both flowers enthralled birds were drawn in a lifelike way and contrasting color was more to the background, often in categorical bands.

The Woodblock Prints

The woodblock prints act being sold here as they were originally sold: affixed to a lyricist backing paper and then hand-signed pressure pencil below the image on loftiness backing paper. The prints themselves ding-dong in very good condition with significant color. There is a tape keep in good condition on the top of the turn upside down where the pieces were affixed slate the matting of their frames. Nearby is some aging to the detect as the affixing to the approval paper creating faint discoloration to rank print paper itself.

Each woodblock measures 4.5″ by 7.5″, or 6″ by 9.5″ with the backing paper.

About the Artist

Shizuo Ashikaga (1917-91) was born in 1917 in Ehime Prefecture and graduated distance from Kyoto Municipal Arts University. One warm his teacher was Taikan Yokoyama. Earth was active as a painter give orders to in restoration works of ancient paintings and temples. The artist died sully 1991 in Kyoto. Uchida published ground of flowers and birds (kacho-e) rip open the 1950s by this artist, annoyed which he is the most known.