Ogata Gekkô (1859-1920)
An old maple tree by the river in autumn. A design based on a Rimpa (or Rinpa) style painting by Sakai Hôitsu (1761-1828)
Signature: Gekkô mo
Seal: Gekkô
Publisher: (Matsuki Heikichi, Daikokuya, Tokyo)
Date: c. 1890-1910
Size: Shikishiban, 24 x 25,1 cm (overall).
Very good impression, excellent fresh colours, fine condition. The waves printed with silver mica, the foliage with partial pigment-oxidation. Untrimmed and unbacked.
Gekkô created a number of shikishi woodblock prints around 1900, most of them in a delicate painterly style, but also a few in the more abstract and stylized Rimpa (or Rinpa) manner, which experienced a revival (called Neo-Rimpa) at the time through artists like Kamisaka Sekka (1866-1942). A rarely seen print, in which Gekkô used a byôbu painting by Sakai Hôitsu as a model.
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