About This Print
As with many of Rei's prints, the artist has presented us with a landscape "set in ambiguous space", to use Helen Merritt's words.1 Dark indigo vertical lines which may portray a heavy rain are interspersed with subtle light indigo and yellow-green broken lines to provide depth to the image. Along with the celestial shapes, Rei gives us a Mt. Fuji-like image on the right and, perhaps, a cityscape along the left part of the dark indigo vertical bar that scoops under Fuji on the right.This collection owns both an artist proof and editioned impression of this print.
1 Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900-1975, Helen Merritt, University of Hawaii Press, 1992, p. 179
IHL Cat. #1267 verso
Print Details
1 Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900-1975, Helen Merritt, University of Hawaii Press, 1992, p. 179
IHL Cat. #613 verso
IHL Cat. #1267 verso label
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #613, #1267 |
| Title | Spleen (鬱念 Utsunen) |
| Series | |
| Artist | Rei Yuki (1928-2003) |
| Signature | pencil signed Rei Yuki by artist in English |
| Seal | none |
| Publication Date | 1965 |
| Edition | #613: "Epr. d'Artiste" (Épreuves d'Artiste - artist's proof) written in pencil in bottom margin. Published in a numbered edition of 50. #1267: 2/50 |
| Publisher | self-published |
| Impression | #613: excellent; #1267: excellent |
| Colors | # 613: excellent; #1267: excellent |
| Condition | # 613: excellent: #1267: good - light toning throughout |
| Genre | sosaku-hanga (creative print) |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Format | |
| H x W Paper | #613: 12 3/8 x 23 1/2 in. (31.4 x 59.7 cm) #1267: 12 1/4 x 23 5/16 in. (31.1 x 59.2 cm) |
| H x W Image | #613: 10 5/8 x 22 in. (27 x 55.9 cm) #1267: 10 5/8 x 22 in. (27 x 55.9 cm) |
| Collections This Print | Los Angeles County Museum of Art M.86.147.199; Carnegie Museum of Art 89.28.1145 (3 of 50); Harvard Art Museum 1978.468 |
| Reference Literature | Modern Japanese Prints: The Twentieth Century, Amanda T. Zehnder, Carnegie Museum of Art, 2009, p. 193; Rei Yuki Complete Print Works Catalogue Raisonné [Yuki Rei zen hangashū], Rei Yuki, Reifū Shobō [玲風書房], 2005, p. 20, #51. |
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