KŌSHIRŌ ONCHI • Na het bad • Sōsaku Hanga meesterwerk • Japanse houtsnede – Japan – 20e eeuw

Kōshirō Onchi (1891–1955)Titel: After the Bath (湯上り, Yuagari)Series: Eight Figures of Contemporary Women (今代婦人八態, Kindai Fujin Hattai)Date: Spring 1934Publisher: Sōsaku Hanga Kurabu (Nakajima Jūtarō)Technique: Woodblock print (mokuhanga), self-printed by the artistPeriod: Sōsaku HangaFormat: Approx. 20 × 26 cmCondition: Excellent!----------------------------------------------------------------------Why Sōsaku Hanga Deserves Your AttentionSōsaku Hanga — the Japanese creative-print movement — remains one of the most undervalued areas of twentieth-century art. These are not commercial reproductions produced across a divided workshop of publisher, carver, and printer: the movement's founding principle, championed above all by Onchi himself, was that the same hand should design, carve, and print the work. This particular sheet was printed by Onchi's own hand — a direct, physical link to the artist rarely found in the earlier ukiyo-e tradition, where design and execution were always separated across specialists.---------------------------------------------------------About the Print — A Modern Woman, Framed by SignageA woman steps out from the public bath, wash-bowl and cloth still in hand, her kimono patterned with bold blue leaves against a deep indigo ground. Behind her looms the red-tipped triangular sign flag traditionally hung outside a Japanese neighborhood bathhouse, and the surrounding characters — 春 ("haru," spring) and 湯 ("yu," hot water/bath) — read as the bathhouse's own signage,... lees verder bij Catawiki