New Prints
I just bought this Toshi Yoshida …
… and this Kiyoshi Nagai …
… and it occurs to me that I haven’t posted any of the prints I’ve bought in the past 6 to 8 months. So here they are.
A Mikumo print–which confuses me, because I thought Mikumo was a publisher. I like this print, but the main reason I bought it was because my great aunt Elaine had it. It reminds me of her little house in San Diego, with the huge deck built into a little green canyon.
I think I’m over the Tokuriki phase. The prints are quite pleasant, but some of them are just not very appealing. Like this one:
On the other hand, I really like this little Teruhide Kato:
Ditto Maekawa Senpan:
And I don’t really know why I ended up getting these three Kaoru Kawano prints at that auction house I like going to–other than the fact that they were dirt cheap. I don’t like Kawano. Every time I look at them, I get a creepy feeling. But here they are:
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I actually LOVE the Kaoru Kawano prints. The soap is awesome!
Glad you like the soap. Let me know when you need more … it’s coming out of my ears.
I always get this uncomfortable feeling that Kaoru Kawano is a pedophile …
I loved seeing your prints. Do you have any of Clifton Karhu? I collect Kawase Hasui, Toshi Yoshida, Shungo Sekiguchi and Ogata Gekko. Do you buy online or strictly from auction houses in your area?
Hi Barbara, sorry it’s taken me so long to respond to your comment; we were out of town. So I mainly buy online, though sometimes locally. Ebay is great. Once I get over the high shipping charges of artelino, I may buy from them. I loooove Sekiguchi; the only one I have is that one everyone has of Pont Mari. There’s only one other that I know of, which of course, I covet, but haven’t been able to get my hands on. Are there others? I don’t have any Clifton Karhu.
I wonder if we’ve bid against each other? I recognize several of your prints as ones I’ve bid on. I buy primarily from jemason, Fujiart,belsipe and one other who’s name escapes me now. I bid on a Teruhide Kato like yours, and in fact I’m bidding again on that one. I also bid on a Maekawa Senpan like the one you have pictured here. I bid on one like it from Fujiart. I’ve traveled to Japan several times and purchased a few things there. My biggest problem is I have no idea what the actual value is of these prints. In Japan woodblock prints tend to be either dirt cheap, ten to twenty dollars, or thousands of dollars. I didn’t see much in between. Funny what you said about the Pont Mari print, I’ve bid on that one at least six times and got outbid each and every time. I really want it so I’m bidding on it again.
Excellent blog, by the way. I know what it’s like to deal with chronic health issues. Your dog is great, even batter dipped and ready to fry as he was in the one set of pictures.
Thank you for the lovely comments Barbara! I’m glad you’re enjoying the blog, even though I feel like I’ve been terribly negative lately. On the other hand, Harry will cheer pretty much anyone up! Except when you have to clean damp, slobbery flour off the floor. Yikes.
Regarding the prints, I tend to use artelino as a price guide (you have to register, though it’s worth it). That said, I think they’re a little lower than you’ll find elsewhere. I think pricing on Japanese prints is really odd; prices range from seriously overpriced to seriously underpriced. Like at antique stores, they sell for five or six time what they’re worth, and often on eBay you can get great prints for a fraction of what they’re worth. What they’re worth being arbitrary, of course.
I like jemason, though I think beslpipe is overpriced. I tend to search out the non-japanese print people and buy from them, even though it’s a gamble if they’re framed. I’ve gotten some great deals that way, but have also gotten some duds. but reall
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What I was going to say is that really, 95% of the fun is the searching. At least for me!
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Renton? Thursday Night? Are you in Washington State? i go to an auction on thurs night in renton and it is usually good. last night however was not so good. i did buy a Fumio Fujita abstract there a few weeks ago. not a bad price. but i saw one go on ebay last week for cheap. i am more interested in Toshi Yoshida abstract prints. that is how i found you. are you interested in selling your abstract print not the arab guy but the other one i can’t remember the title?! even so i still am interested and would not mind chatting and exchanging pictures of prints we have collected. i too use artelino for reference. great resource. so the other night at auction in Renton i picked up 5 modern prints by a well known artist, Risaburo Kimura. he did a city series and all were well undervalued. what a bargain.
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Dino
Hey Dino,
Yep, it’s the Mroczek or however your spell it people. Probably the very same auction I go to, though haven’t been for a while. Lucky you on those cityscapes! I think the best deal I got there was on a Sekino print for about 50 dollars. Woo hoo!
Alas, I’m not interested in selling that particular Yoshida; I wub it too much. But it’s always great to find like-minded print people and would love to see some pics of your stuff!