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Tracks the change in total value of sales, as well as the total number of lots offered and sold annually in the art market. This chart shows whether Katsushika Hokusai’s total sales are going up, and ...
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) was a renowned Japanese ukiyo-e painter and printmaker during the Edo period. He is best known for the woodblock print series “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji ...
Edo-period artist Katsushika Hokusai’s most famous individual woodblock print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa has been reproduced in many forms of media, including functional ones for everyday life, ...
Arts See Hokusai’s work from a new perspective at the MFA The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, will display over 90 Hokusai woodblock prints, paintings, and illustrated books.
This was creating “Western-style” woodblock prints that aimed to reproduce the texture and density of depiction of Western copperplate engravings and oil paintings.
Apple’s wave emoji is a popular choice among iPhone users, but perhaps even more popular is the woodblock print that serves as the origin of the emoji, Hokusai’s “Great Wave.” The Museum of Fine Arts ...
Case in point: On Tuesday, Christie’s in New York sold Katsushika Hokusai’s “Under the Well of the Great Wave off Kanagawa” for $2.8 million—a new record high for the 1830-32 woodblock ...
The title of the exhibition helps to explain: “Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence,” an enlivening if at times vexingly loose frame through which to view the MFA’s expansive collection of ...
Katsushika Hokusai, “Fine Wind, Clear Weather,” also known as Red Fuji, from the series “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji,” about 1830–31. Woodblock print; ink and color on paper. Credit ...