Lot n° 303

CONDER (Josiah). Paintings and Studies by Kawanabe Kyosai. An illustrated and descriptive catalogue of a collection of paintings, studies and sketches, by the above artist, with explanatory notes of the principles, materials and technique of Japanese...

Estimation : 50 / 75
Adjudication : 260 €
Description
painting. With illuminated frontispiece in 80 colour blocks, heightened with gold and silver, by T. Tamura, also 33 collotype plates and 24 pages of half-tone illustrations by K. Ogawa.
Tokyo, The Maruzen Kabushiki Kaisha, s.d.
(1911), gd 4°, 131 p., de texte, rel. ornée édit. Kawanabe Kyosai (1831-1899) est un artiste japonais qui, selon les mots d'un critique, est "un individualiste et un indépendant, peut-être le dernier virtuose de la peinture japonaise traditionnelle".
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