About This Print
This untitled print picturing a peacock and peahen on cherry tree branch was tipped into the 1936 Watanabe sales catalog, Catalogue of Wood-cut Color Prints, of S. Watanabe, p. 39. On p. 36 of that catalog the print is titled "Peacock and cherry blossom". [For the entire Watanabe 1936 catalog go to Catalogue of Wood-Cut Colour Prints of S. Watanabe, 1936.]
Postcard size prints were first offered by Watanabe in his 1931 sales catalog.
Catalogue Raisonné
Print Details
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| IHL Catalog | #1537 |
| Title | Peacock and Cherry Blossom (as titled in 1936 Watanabe sales catalog titled Catalogue of Wood-cut Color Prints, of S. Watanabe, No. 427, p. 36.) Also titled "Peacock and Peahen in a Flowering Cherry Tree" |
| Series | |
| Artist | Ohara Koson (1877 - 1945) |
| Signature | not signed |
| Seal |  |
| Date | 1930/1936 |
| Edition | possibly first |
| Publisher | Watanabe Shōzaburō (no publisher seal/marks) [Marks: pub. ref. 576] |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | excellent - slight toning; remnants of prior mounting in Watanabe 1936 catalog along left edge verso |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Genre | shin-hanga (new prints) |
| Format | |
| H x W Paper | 5 7/16 x 3 9/16 in. (13.8 x 9 cm) |
| H x W Image | 5 1/4 x 3 3/8 in. (13.3 x 8.6 cm) |
| Collections This Print | Art Gallery of Greater Victoria SC458 |
| 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, cat. AS-30, p. 217. |
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