About This Print
A view of the old Basilica de Santa Maria de Guadalupe in Mexico City from an adjoining plaza. The artist traveled to Mexico in October 1965 as part of a world tour that also took him to the United States, Spain, Italy, Greece, and Turkey. Upon his return to Japan he began work on a series of ten prints showing views from his travels titled
Here and There in the West. All of these prints were carved and, most likely, printed and published by the artist.
Six Additional Prints from the Untitled Views of Travel Series
San Miguel, Mexico |
Cataluna Museum, Barcelona, Spain
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Toledo, Spain |
Florence, Italy
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Athens, Greece
ギリシャ アテネ |
Izmir, Turkey |
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #966 |
| Title or Description | Mexico City, Mexico (メキシコメキシコ市) |
| Series | Here and There in the West
西洋所々 Seiyō tokorodokoro |
Artist
| Asano Takeji (1900-1999)
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Signature
| 竹二画刻 Takeji ga koku (drawn and carved by Takeji)
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| Seal | no seal |
| Publication Date | 1966
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| Edition | likely first edition
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| Carver | self-carved |
| Printer | |
| Publisher | artist - the prints in the artist's series of scenic views around Japan and of various cities in the western world, published in the 1960s, were originally distributed through a print collecting club (木版画 頒布会 moku hanga hanpukai). |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | excellent - minor mounting residue top margin verso
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| Genre | sosaku hanga (creative print)
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| Miscellaneous |
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| Format | oban
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| H x W Paper | 10 1/2 x 15 5/8 in. 65.7 x 39.7 cm) |
H x W Image
| 9 1/2 x 14 1/4 in. (24.1 x 36.2 cm)
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| Collections This Print |
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last revised:8/22/2018
