Landscape to City: A Collection of 20th Century Japanese Prints
Landscape to City: A Collection of 20th Century Japanese Prints
Sekino Jun'ichiro (1914-1988) | Portrait of Toneyama Kojin together with a hand-coloured print of the same subject | Showa period, 20th century
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Sekino Jun'ichiro (1914-1988)
Portrait of Toneyama Kojin together with a hand-coloured print of the same subject
Showa period, 20th century
a woodblock print, sealed Jun; accompanied by a woodblock print, partially hand-coloured in charcoal and pastel, signed in pencil in Roman script Jun. Sekino 1980, inscribed in pencil in Japanese Toneyama Kojin zo (Portrait of Toneyama Kojin)
93.4 x 63.5 cm., 36¾ x 25 in. (the woodblock print)
59.1 x 41 cm., 23¼ x 16⅛ in. (the hand-coloured print)
Born in Aomori in 1914, Sekino was a prominent Japanese sosaku-hanga movement printmaker best known for his alternative portraits of kabuki actors, sumo wrestlers and geisha. Sekino went on to study under Onchi Koshiro (1891-1955) [see Lot 115] and was greatly influenced by the works of German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528). He won the Teiten Prize for etching in 1936, began teaching at Kobe University in Japan in 1965 and also became a member of the Nihon Hanga Kyokai (Japan Print Association). His works are in numerous museum collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
The portrait here depicts the artist Kojin Toneyama (1921-1944). Often employing or quoting Mexican imagery and stylistics in his works, his passion for these subjects, along with their study and dissemination internationally, reached its culmination when Toneyama was awarded the Order of the Aztec Eagle by the government of Mexican in 1972.