Onbu (Piggyback) (Blue)

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STIK (B. 1979)
Onbu (Piggyback) (Blue)
ukiyo-e woodcut in black, white and blue, 2013, on laid rice paper, signed and inscribed AP 3/10 in pencil, one of ten artist's proofs aside from the edition of fifteen, a very good impression with the woodgrain printing clearly in the background, printed at the Adachi Foundation, Japan, published by the artist, the full sheet, with a deckle edge above, in very good condition
Block 395 x 180 mm., Sheet 478 x 200 mm.

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner.

Special Notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

The figure group in Onbu is an interpretation of a detail from Hiroshige’s The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road, of a figure giving a piggyback at a crossing on the Seto river. This project was conceived in collaboration between the artist and the Hiroshige Museum in Tokyo.
The published edition of Onbu was printed using traditional Japanese pigments in four colour variants: Blue, Grey, Green and Pink, each in an edition of fifteen with ten artist's proofs, at the Adachi Institute in Tokyo, which was established to preserve traditional Japanese woodcut techniques.

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