About This Print
One of Rei's semi-abstract landscapes created from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, three examples of which are shown below.| The texture of the woodblock itself creates dappled tones and fragile shades. The works are light, yet the source of the light is hidden behind fences and arches. It is a light defined by shadows, creating a mood of timeless suspension. Leafless branches cast foreground shadows, mysteriously real and abstract, stark and delicate. The texture of the block, structural unity of the geometric ground figures, subdued coloration and shading, and magical, waving forms together create a locus, a place that is both definite and infinite, haunting and unassuming, vague and too vivid to be mere fantasy. - Francis Blakemore (Who's Who in Modern Japanese Prints, Weatherhill, 1975, p. 247.) |
 H: 19 1/2 x W: 27 1/8 in, Carnegie Museum of Art 89.28.1146 |  H: 13 x W: 26 in. (plus margins) IHL Cat. #1567 |  H: 20 3/4 x W: 28 1/2 in. |
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #894 |
| Title | Nostalgyノスタルジー [Catalogue Raisonné lists print title as "ノスタルジー" "Nostalgia" and "Nostalgie"] |
| Series | |
| Artist | Rei Yuki (1928-2003) |
| Signature | pencil signed Rei Yuki by artist in English and in Japanese |
| Seal | none |
| Publication Date | 1972 |
| Edition | 2 of 75 |
| Publisher | self-published |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | excellent - small tape remnant upper left corner verso; minor soiling/marks in margin |
| Genre | sosaku-hanga (creative print) |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Format | |
| H x W Paper | 10 1/8 x 13 3/4 (26 x 34.9 cm) |
| H x W Image | 8 5/8 x 12 (21.9 x 30.5 cm) |
| Collections This Print | |
| Reference Literature | Rei Yuki Complete Print Works Catalogue Raisonné [Yuki Rei zen hangashū], Rei Yuki, Reifū Shobō [玲風書房], 2005, p. 76, #124. |
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