Koson: Wild geese
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Ohara Koson (Shôson) (1877-1945)

A flock of wild geese flying over a reed-covered misty lakeside.

Signature and seal: Shôson

Publisher: Watanabe, Tokyo (red round 6-mm-seal bottom left)

Date: Undated (1926)

Original Japanese colour woodblock print. Size: Vertical Ôban, 36,2 x 23,9 cm (image)

Very nice impression and colours, with well visible wood grain. A later impression. from the original printing blocks, printed 1945-57. Full margins. A brown spot in top, slight mat-stain, verso a little age-toned and square old Japanese (collector‘s?) stamp ("No. ..." remainder mostly illegible) bottom left, two small stamps "Made in Japan" and a small old paper label, with "# 346" handwritten on it. Overall very good condition

Blair, Toledo Cat. 1930, no. 180. Ill. in Reigle Newland/Perrée/Schaap, Crows, Cranes and Camellias, The natural world of Ohara Koson 1877-1945, Leiden/Boston 2010, p. 147, cat. No. 149, and p. 206, S11.5. Cf. also Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Perrée Coll. RP-P-1999-490; Smithsonian, Muller Coll. S2003.8.2043.

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