About This Print
Originally issued in 1931, this collection's print is a later edition c. 1946-1957.
"Less successful are Koson's attempts at integrated landscape compositions such as "Mallards in a coastal scene", one of the few dated prints by the artist (1931), in which the groupings of ducks appear wooden and stolid in an equally lackluster landscape setting. The forms of the diving and swimming ducks in this print are clearly borrowed for other prints like "Mallards and lotus" or visa versa. In Japanese art, the reuse of motifs and the reworking of compositions by painters and print designers is not unusual..."
Catalogue Raisonné
Crows, Cranes & Camellias: The Natural World of Ohara Koson 1877-1945
S7.2 (cat. 146)
Print Details
last revision:
| IHL Catalog | #1766 |
| Title | Mallards in Coastal Scene (untitled on print) (also titled Wild Ducks and Pampas Grass 薄に鴨 by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) |
| Series | |
| Artist | Ohara Koson (1877 - 1945) |
| Signature |  |
| Seal | Shōson 祥邨 in seal script (see above) |
| Date |  昭和六年作 a work of Shōwa 6th year |
| Edition | Later edition (c. 1946-1957) with black circular 6 mm Watanabe type-I seal in lower left hand corner of image, as shown below. |
| Publisher |  ワタナベ [Watanabe] Watanabe "A-type" 6mm round seal |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | excellent - some waviness to top 1/2 of print |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Genre | shin-hanga (new prints) |
| Format | oban-tate |
| H x W Paper | 15 7/16 x 10 3/8 in. (39.2 x 26.4 cm) |
| H x W Image | 14 1/4 x 9 3/8 in. (36.2 x 23.8 cm) |
| Collections This Print | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 47.1114 (with Watanabe "E-type" seal); Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum 1997.253 (edition unknown); Los Angeles County Museum of Art M.2000.105.144 (with Watanabe "E-type" seal); Art Gallery of New South Wales 28.2009 (likely first edition); Rijksmuseum RP-P-1999-374 (with Watanabe "E-type" seal) |
| Reference Literature | Catalogue Raisonné: Crows, Cranes & Camellias: The Natural World of Ohara Koson 1877-1945, Amy Reigle Newland, Jan Perrée, Robert Schaap, Hotei Publishing, 2001, pl. #S7.2 (cat. 146). |
5/28/2020
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