Title: フィンセントファンゴッホ の自画像 (Vincent Van Gogh Self-Portrait).
Artist: Gihachiro Okuyama (1907-1981).
Signed & Dated: Signed in pencil 奥山儀八郎 to margin, & in script to plate. Pencilled パレットをもつ自画像 (Self Portrait with Palette). Dated: 三十三年十月 (October 1958).
Medium: Woodblock Print.
Paper Size: Approx: H: 32.25cm x W: 27.00cm.
Condition: Wonderful. Image face unblemished with strong colour. Mild general browing to paper, with sharp crisp edges & corners. Slight crimping to lower margin. Please refer to photos / Contact for any further questions & condition report.
Notes: A tremendous piece & arguably one of his most collectable works - Gihachiro Okuyama’s take on Vincent Van Gogh’s 1889 Self-Portrait. Throughout his life, Gihachiro Okuyama greatly admired the work of European post-impressionist master Vincent Van Gogh. Typically post 1954 - once he had established his own workshop, Okuyama Hanga Kobo, in Matsudo - Gihachiro Okuyama continued to create reproductions of influential and inspirational works under his own (woodblock) hand.
Read more about Van Gogh’s 1889 Self Portrait @ the nfa: The National Gallery of Art: Vincent van Gogh | Self-Portrait, 1889.
Title: フィンセントファンゴッホ の自画像 (Vincent Van Gogh Self-Portrait).
Artist: Gihachiro Okuyama (1907-1981).
Signed & Dated: Signed in pencil 奥山儀八郎 to margin, & in script to plate. Pencilled パレットをもつ自画像 (Self Portrait with Palette). Dated: 三十三年十月 (October 1958).
Medium: Woodblock Print.
Paper Size: Approx: H: 32.25cm x W: 27.00cm.
Condition: Wonderful. Image face unblemished with strong colour. Mild general browing to paper, with sharp crisp edges & corners. Slight crimping to lower margin. Please refer to photos / Contact for any further questions & condition report.
Notes: A tremendous piece & arguably one of his most collectable works - Gihachiro Okuyama’s take on Vincent Van Gogh’s 1889 Self-Portrait. Throughout his life, Gihachiro Okuyama greatly admired the work of European post-impressionist master Vincent Van Gogh. Typically post 1954 - once he had established his own workshop, Okuyama Hanga Kobo, in Matsudo - Gihachiro Okuyama continued to create reproductions of influential and inspirational works under his own (woodblock) hand.
Read more about Van Gogh’s 1889 Self Portrait @ the nfa: The National Gallery of Art: Vincent van Gogh | Self-Portrait, 1889.
