Asian Art Auction

November 30, 2015

LOT 58

Lot 58

Fourteen Japanese Woodblock Print Reference Books

Fourteen Japanese Woodblock Print Reference Books
Lot 58 Details
Fourteen Japanese Woodblock Print Reference Books

日本藝術參考書籍14本

Including: Treasures of Asia, Skira, (1977); Hokusai: Paintings, Drawings and Woodcuts, Phaidon, (1985); Ukiyo-e: 250 Years of Japanese Art, Mayflower Books, (1979); The Art of Hokusai in Book Illustration, Sotheby Parke Bernet, (1980); Masterworks of Ukiyo-e: Early Paintings, Kodansha International Ltd., (1967); Important Japanese Color Prints, Parke-Bernet Galleries, (1971); Hokusai: One Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji, George Braziller Inc. Publishers, (1988); Mingei: Japanese Folk Art, The Brooklyn Museum, (1985); The Great Japan Exhibition: The Art of the Edo Period 1600-1868, Royal Academy of Arts, (1981); Japanese Painting from 15th to 19th Century, Tokyo Gallery, (1987); Images from the Floating World, Chartwell Books, (1978); Utamaro, Kodansha Publishing, (1982); Early Ukiyo-e Master: Okumura Masanobu, Kodansha International, (1983); The Theatrical Prints of the Torii Masters: A Selection of Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Ukiyo-e, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1977

Estimate $500-$600

Realised: $400
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

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