KOITSU -- "Morigasaki Coast"

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Artist Koitsu TSUCHIYA (1870-1949)
Title "Morigasaki Coast"
("Morigasaki Kaigan")
Date ca1930
Series na
Publisher Kawaguchi
Seal, Carver/Printer K & S "D-seal" (used 1931-40's)
Maeda/Komatsu.
Image Size 10 1/4 x 14 7/8
("dai-oban," large oban)
Impression Very Fine. Superbly executed "bokashi" shading; light "gauffrage" (embossing) to moon, water reflections, and silhouettes; very finely carved details, crisp key-lines.
Condition Nearly Excellent.
Excellent, strong colors.
(Light toning; few surface scratches; "bumping" bottom corners;" light wear.)
Reference/Illus Ross Walker's "Catalogue Raisonne of Tsuchiya Koitsu" p262, pl# 8.3 and book's FRONT coverpiece.
Comments Exhibits the superb mastery of light for which Koitsu is so well known. Chosen as THE Koitsu print to be on the front cover of a catalogue raisonne of all of Koitsu's lifetime works by Ross Walker. RARELY seen.
Item # EG-241
Price $3600 (Sold/NK)