About This Print
Another large print by Takahashi depicting one his beloved Kyoto gardens. Perhaps an abstraction of Kyoto's Jakko-in Temple which has been a nunnery since the 12th century or just the artist's conception of a formal garden within a temple/nunnery?
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
高橋力雄 庭 (尼寺) Takahashi Rikio (1917–1998)
NIWA (Nunnery)
1985
Color woodblock print with embossing on paper
Lent by Irwin Lavenberg, L2018.62.2While Takahashi's images are abstract, his titles suggest a concrete subject. Here we see rock forms and an ice-covered pond in what might be the garden (niwa) of Jakkō-in, a nunnery in the hills northeast Kyoto that has been in operation since the twelfth century.Are we looking at the gardens from above, or from an angle? With Takahashi, we can’t be sure.
Catalogue Raisonné Entry
#427 - Catalogue Raisonné
庭(尼寺) [NIWA (Nunnery)]
須坂版画美術館収蔵 [Suzaka hanga bijutsukan shūzō,
Suzaka Hanga Museum collection located in Suzaka, Nagano]
(Rikio Takahashi, The Woodblock Prints published by Abe Publishing LTD., 1998)
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #1692 |
| Title | NIWA (Nunnery) 庭 (尼寺) |
| Series | |
| Artist | Takahashi Rikio (1917-1998) |
| Signature | Rikio Takahashi - Pencil signed by artist |
| Seal | none |
| Date | 1985 |
| Edition | 24 of 50 |
| Publisher | self-published |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | excellent |
| Genre | sosaku-hanga (creative print) |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Format | |
| H x W Paper | 35 7/8 x 23 5/8 in. (91.1 x 60 cm) |
| H x W Image | 32 x 20 1/16 in. (81.3 x 51 cm) |
| Collections This Print | Suzaka Hanga Museum (Suzaka, Nagano) |
| Reference Literature | Catalogue Raisonné: Rikio Takahashi, The Woodblock Prints, published by Abe Publishing LTD., 1998, p. 168 number 427, color pl. 91. |
8/12/2021
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