Yoshijiro Urushibara - Coloured Woodcuts

Yoshijiro Urushibara coloured Frank Brangwyn woodcuts

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Yoshijiro Urushibara / Frank Brangwyn

1. The Resting Place (Scutari) signed, 17 x 21 cm, £450

2. The Shepherd’s Watch signed, 13.5 x 17.5 cm, £450

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Yoshijiro Urushibara / Frank Brangwyn

3. Trees (Montreuil) signed, 17 x 21.5 cm, ÂŁ350

4. The Golden Horn signed, 16.5 x 21.5 cm, ÂŁ450

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Yoshijiro Urushibara / Frank Brangwyn

5. The Outskirts of a Flemmish Town signed, 14.5 x 21 cm, £450

6. Court of the Mosque of Memory signed, 16 x 21 cm, £550

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Yoshijiro Urushibara / Frank Brangwyn

7. Mosque, Ibu Touloun chop mark, 16 x 21 cm, ÂŁ350

8. Fishing (Entrance to the Scheld) signed, 17 x 21 cm, ÂŁ500

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Yoshijiro Urushibara / Frank Brangwyn

Yoshijiro Urushibara (1888-1953) was a Japanese artist who came to London in 1907 and lived in England and France for the next twenty-seven years. He collaborated with the painter Sir Frank Brangwyn on several commissions but their most notable works together were two portfolios of prints. These were woodblock prints of Bruges (1919) and the works offered here, Ten Woodcuts by Yoshijiro Urushibara after designs by Frank Brangwyn (1924).

Brangwyn thought very highly of Urushibara’s work and said, ‘He did a good deal of work with me – made coloured woodcuts after my watercolours – so good were some of ‘em it was difficult to tell the difference between the original’. In the opinion of Laurence Binyon, Urushibara’s prints were at least the equal of those of earlier Japanese masters such as Utamaro and Hokusai.

The virtuosity shown by Urushibara, both in the cutting of the blocks and their printing is stunning.

We have one copy only of each print

9. The Mill (Dix Muden), chop mark, 21 x 17 cm, £550

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10. In the Docks, chop mark, 17 x 21 cm, £950

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