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THBChiura Obata (1885-1975) American/Japanese, Color Woodcut
About Seller
522 South Pineapple Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34236
United States
Sarasota Estate Auction specializes in a wide variety of furniture, antiques, fine art, lighting, sculptures, and collectibles. Andrew Ford, owner and operator of the company, has a passion for finding the best pieces of art and antiques and sharing those finds with the Gulf Coast of Florida.
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LiveJun 9, 2024
Over 900 lots will be offered in day 2 of our 2 day weekend. There are multiple lots of important fine art from landscapes and etchings to old masters and portraits. We have Asian antiquities, sterling silver, estate jewelry, and more! Sarasota Estate Auction sarasotaestateauction@gmail.com
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Chiura Obata (1885-1975) American/Japanese. Titled "Passing Rain," "High Sierra." Color Woodcut with Signature and seal bottom right. From the 1930 World Landscape Series based on his visit to Yosemite. Provenance: Private collection, California, for 3 generations since original purchase.
Overall size: 18 1/2 X 24 1/2 in.
Sight size: 11 1/2 X 16 in.
#8002 .
Born in the Okayama prefecture of Japan, Chiura Obata was adopted by his uncle, an artist. As a child he was trained in ink painting, and at 14 he was apprenticed to the painter Murata Tanryo in Tokyo. He also studied with Kogyo Terasaki and Goho Hasimoto. In 1903, Obata moved to San Francisco and began working as an illustrator for The New World and The Japanese American, two of the city's Japanese newspapers. He also did work as a commercial designer and embraced the Nihonga style, which fused traditional Japanese sumi-e ink painting with the conventions of western naturalism. He spent much of the 1920s painting landscapes throughout California, visiting Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada and creating over a hundred paintings and sketches of the high country. Obata stayed in the USA until the death of his father in 1928. Between 1928 and 1932, he worked in Tokyo as a painter and transformed his California landscape watercolors and sketches into a portfolio of 35 woodblock prints titled World Landscape Series - America, perhaps his most famous work, and the origin of this particular piece. Obata's landscapes reveal his intensely personal and poetic vision of "Great Nature," a vision grounded in an underlying Zen philosophy of selflessness that accepts the insignificance of human affairs in relation to the timeless forces of nature.
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