About This Print
Along with Blue Peep Show A (IHL Cat. #237) this print, Seabathing, makes use of the curvilinear forms that appear in most of the artist's work during 1970 and largely disappear in future work.
Note the different handling of the embossed circles between this collection's print, below left, and that shown in the Catalog Raisonné, below right. Color differences are likely related to color shifts introduced during the photographic reproduction process. It is not unusual for Takahashi to make small changes between prints in an edition.
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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
sheet size: 18 1/2 x 17 3/4 in. (47 x 45.1 cm)
Takahashi Rikio (1917–1998)
Seabathing
1970
Color woodblock print with embossing on paperLent by Irwin Lavenberg, L2017.103.23Vivid, primary colors and curvilinear forms are unusual in Takahashi’s work. This composition captures the joy of ocean swimming and, perhaps, the danger of its currents.
Catalogue Raisonné Entry
 #265 - Catalogue Raisonné (Rikio Takahashi, The Woodblock Prints, published by Abe Publishing LTD., 1998) |  |
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #424 |
| Title | Seabathing 海水浴 |
| Series | n/a |
| Artist | Takahashi Rikio (1917-1998) |
| Signature | Pencil signed by artist - Rikio Takahashi in English |
| Seal | none |
| Date | 1970 |
| Edition | 6 of 50 |
| Publisher | self-published |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | excellent |
| Genre | sosaku hanga (creative print) |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Format | |
| H x W Paper | 18 1/2 x 17 3/4 in. (47 x 45.1 cm) |
| H x W Image | 16 x 15 3/8 in. (40.6 x 39.1 cm) |
| Collections This Print | Minneapolis Institute of Art 2013.29.592 |
| Reference Literature | Catalogue Raisonné: Rikio Takahashi, The Woodblock Prints, published by Abe Publishing LTD., 1998, p. 148 number 265, color pl. p. 59. |
8/12/2021
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