Chokosai Eisho Art

Italo Scanga was born in the Calabria region of Italy, and at 14 immigrated to the United States with his family after World War II. Living in Detroit, he worked on the General Motor...

Man and Girl on Way to Church. 1927. Wood engraving. Physick 427. 7 x 1 1/8 (sheet 8 7/8 x 4). Used as a wedding invitation for Petra Gill and Denis...

Angor Vhat. 1930. Woodcut and drypoint printed in colors. 11 x 13 (sheet 15 7/8 x 16 7/8). Edition 75, # 22. A bright, colorful impression printed on Japanese mulberry paper, with an irregular bottom margin. Signed and numbered in pencil. Housed in a 18 3/8 4 x 19 1/2-inch archival mat, suitable for framing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Elyse Ashe Lord was a British artist and illustrator who worked in watercolors and drypoint etching. She studied at the Heatherley School of Art in Chelsea. The first public exhibition of her work was in 1919. Her drawings were exhibited at the Brook Street Gallery in 1921.[ In 1922 she became a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours. Various large exhibitions of her works were held during her lifetime. Her images typically draw on the Art Deco movement and ideas of Oriental culture, despite the fact that she never visited the Far East. She was a popular artist, even during a time period when the art market, and decorative arts particularly, was suffering from the economic crisis of the 1930s. She lived in Bexley in Kent. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Angkor Wat, in its beauty and state of preservation, is unrivaled. Its mightiness and magnificence bespeak a pomp and a luxury surpassing that of a Pharaoh or a Shah Jahan, an impressiveness greater than that of the Pyramids, an artistic distinctiveness as fine as that of the Taj Mahal. Angkor Wat is located about six kilometers (four miles) north of Siem Reap, south of Angkor Thom...

The encounter is an artwork realized by Ferdinando Codognotto in 2023.  Woodcut based on stencil of 1971. 50 x 36 cm. Hand signed in the lower right margin. Good condition. 

Wood engraving. Physick catalog 917. Image: 3 3/4 x 2 5/16 (sheet 7 3/8 x 5 1/2). A fine impression printed on Japanese mulberry paper. Signed and numbered '5' in pencil. Housed in ...

This does not appear to be signed. not examined out of frame. In the manner of Frans Masereel here is an old woodblock print of a Jewish religious scene of the induction of a new torah in a procession with a chuppah, wedding canopy. In the tradition of the Jewish European artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries, such as Moritz Oppenheim, Max Liebermann, Lesser Ury, Jakob Steinhardt, Jehudo Epstein, Artur Kolnik, Stanislaus Bender...

This rare to come across woodcut from 1965 is from an edition of 250, individual number 202. In original frame. It was formerly in the collection of The Greenwich Library, Greenwich,...

The Portrait is an original Woodcut print realized by Mario Vellani Marchi (1895 – 1979) Good conditions. The artwork is depicted through perfect hatching in a well-balanced compos...

Kinuta is a wonderful color xylograph on paper, made by the Japanese master Tsukiota Kogyo (1869-1927). The artist's signature is in the red seal printed in the lower right corner "Tsukioka". From the series "One Hundred No Dramas" (Nogaku Hyakuban), published by Matsuki Heikichi (Daikokuya) and published in 1922. Kinuta is the wife of the prince of Ashiya, portrayed while she is ironing the laundry, beating a sort of fan so that the sound brings her wish to her husband in the distant capital. In excellent conditions, except for a little stain on the higher left margin, and some light decolorations, this original print preserves his freshness of line and colors. The texture of the princess's kimono has a precious golden hatch, and the artwork keeps still today the rare beauty and the incredible delicatessen inspired his creation, and in perfect syntony with the Japanese mood. Tsukioka Kōgyo, Sometimes called Sakamaki Kōgyo, (1869 - 1927) was a Japanese artist of the Meiji period, a student and adopted son of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, and also studied with Ogata Gekkō...

Toyokuni III A Modern Shuihuzhuan / Kasagawa no Higezo 近世水滸伝 笠川髭造 Tattoo Size: Oban 36 x 25 cm 文久2年（1862） 　

Saigyo-Zakura is a wonderful color xylograph on paper, made by the Japanese master Tsukiota Kogyo (1869-1927). The artist's signature is in the red seal printed in the lower left corner From the series "One Hundred No Dramas" (Nogaku Hyakuban), published by Matsuki Heikichi (Daikokuya) and published in 1925. This modern artwork represents Saigyo-zakura, the poet-monk Saigyo Hoshi reflecting on the splendor of cherry blossoms in Kyoto. In excellent conditions, except for some light decolorations, this original print preserves his freshness of line and colors. The texture of the kimono has a precious silver hatch, and the beauty of the cherry blossoms are exalted. Tsukioka Kōgyo, Sometimes called Sakamaki Kōgyo, (1869 - 1927) was a Japanese artist of the Meiji period, a student and adopted son of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, and also studied with Ogata Gekkō...

Figure is an original woodcut print realized by Amadore Porcella. The state of preservation of the artwork is very good. Passepartout dimension: ...