Jun 13, 2017 - Sale 2451

Sale 2451 - Lot 258

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(JAPANESE PRINTS / HAKU MAKI.) 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 Kyokushin 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 cedar wood box. New York & Tokyo: Weatherhill, (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.