May 05, 2009 - Sale 2179

Sale 2179 - Lot 106

Price Realized: $ 1,440
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
(JAPANESE PRINTS.) Brannan, Noah; and Elliot, William. Festive Wine: Ancient Japanese Poems from the Kinkafu. 21 woodblock prints by Haku Maki, measuring 140x197 mm, (5 1/2x7 3/4 inches), each signed and numbered, printed in two colors on handmade Kyokushi paper, tipped-in, and matted. Small folio, 1/4 white goatskin over hemp, stamped in gold and silver; handmade paper dust jacket, excised on spine to reveal title; publisher's wood box. New York & Tokyo, (1969)

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number 19 of 150 deluxe copies signed by haku maki and bearing his seal. A beautiful example of traditional Japanese woodblock printing executed with modern methods.