About This Print
A quiet winter evening in Montmartre. A snowfall has covered the cobbled street and the sky is a dusky yellow, looking very Utrillo-ish, as in the below painting. Sekino visited France in 1958 which must have included a visit to Montmartre in winter.
Montmartre Under the Snow, Maurice Utrillo (1883-1955)
33 x 41 cm oil on canvas
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #2381 |
| Title |  モンマルトルの雪 |
| Series | |
| Artist | Sekino Jun’ichirō (1914 - 1988) |
| Signature |  |
| Seal | 準 Jun seal (as shown above) |
| Publication Date | 1959 |
| Edition | 3/100 |
| Publisher | self-published |
| Carver |  |
| Printer | self-printed - while the above label states "self-printed", John Fiorillo notes: "This seal [label] probably functioned like the ‘jizuri’ (self-printed, 哨┰) seal used by Hiroshi Yoshida (1876–1950), which nearly always indicated an impression approved by Yoshida but not self-printed. Martin (p. 20) cautions that, “The identification of self- printed works [by Sekino] is a nuanced exercise in which the manner of printing, paper, colors, edition size, and signature style may all play a role”. ["The Art of Sekino Jun’ichirō: Expressive Realism and Geometric Formalism, John Fiorillo appearing in Andon 104, p. 92, fn6] |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | excellent |
| Genre | sosaku hanga (creative prints) |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Format | |
| H x W Paper | 28 1/4 x 21 3/4 (71.8 x 55.2 cm) |
| H x W Image | 25 x 19 in. (63.5 x 48.3 cm) |
| Collections This Print | |
| Reference Literature | Sekino Jun’ichirō gashū (Collected art by Jun’ichirō Sekino), Tōkyō: Purinto Korekutazu Saron, 1976, print no. 38 |
6/25/2021 created
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