About This Print

This small print titled Conception appeared in Volume 7 of the magazine Hanga Geijutsu (Print Arts) issued in the Autumn of 1974.  The print was bound into the magazine as a "special attachment."  It is a five color offset print, using aluminum and zinc plates, printed on a heavy-weight Japanese paper.  This print is not listed in any of the catalog's devoted to the artist's work. 

Wall Card from the Exhibition Three Masters of Abstraction

Hagiwara Hideo, Ida Shōichi and Takahashi Rikio

November 3, 2018 - March 24, 2019

Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR 97205

Print is covered with protective cover sheet on which the details are printed

Print information appearing on protective translucent sheet 井田照一 オリジナル [Ida Shōichi original] 特別添付版画 [special attachment art print]  5版 5色 [5 printings 5 colors]  版色 - アルミニユムとジソク版にょるオフ七シト [Printing plate – offset using aluminum and zinc plates]  1974年 8th月 制作 21 x 16 cm (image) 用紙 - ホワイト フリマ 和紙 [Produced in August 1974; paper – howaito (white) furima? Japanese paper] E.D. - 8575部  そのうち H.C. 400部

Artist's Comments from Magazine's Colophon

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Print Details

IHL Catalog	#1324
Title	Conception
Series	appearing in Volume 7 of the magazine Hanga Geijutsu (Print Arts)
Artist	Ida Shōichi (1941-2006)
Signature	S. Ida (in English script)
Seal	grid seal (embossed and stamped) and embossed mark
Publication Date	August 1974
Edition	4664 of 8575
Publisher	Abe Shuppan 阿部出版
Impression	excellent
Colors	excellent
Condition	excellent
Genre	modern
Miscellaneous
Format
H x W Paper	9 1/16 x  7 1/8 in. (24.4 x 18.1 cm)
H x W Image	8 1/4 x 6 5/16 in. (21 x 16 cm)
Collections This Print	Smithsonian Institution, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery S1987.1040; Northern Illinois University, James D. Tobin Collection, NE 1310 .H363a
Reference Literature	Shoichi Ida Documents 1941-2006: Surface is the Between-Between Vertical and Horizon, Shōichi Ida, Abe Shuppan, 2012, p.101.

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