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This Lego build of Hokusai’s 1831 woodblock print, designed by Lego artist Jumpei Mitsui and assembled here in a 10-minute time-lapse that Boing Boing pointed to today, was recently featured in ...
A rare copy of “The Great Wave off Kanagawa,” one of art history’s most iconic images, has become the most expensive artwork by Japanese printmaker Katsushika Hokusai ever to sell at auction.
The Great Wave off Kanagawa is the first print in Katsushika Hokusai's series Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji Christie's A rare print of The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai sold at ...
View Under the Wave off Kanagawa Kanagawa-oki nami-ura, also known as The Great Wave by Hokusai on artnet. Browse upcoming and past auction lots by Hokusai.
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 Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Scientific Research team conducted a spectroscopic analysis of the museum’s edition of Under the Wave off Kanagawa and found that rather than wholly adopting ...
Artist Austin Davis was a high schooler in Yelm when he first saw downtown Olympia’s mural of “The Great Wave off Kanagawa,” which has stood on Fourth Avenue at the foot of Budd Inlet for ...
One of my favorite new sets this month is the LEGO Art set based on the famous print The Great Wave off Kanagawa by the Japanese artist Hokusai. Unlike many LEGO Art sets, this one has three ...
The most recognizable piece on display, one of Hokusai’s prints of ‘The Great Wave Off Kanagawa,’ will be part of the exhibition until July. The YUAG acquired the print in 1973. According to Ohki, the ...
Katsushika Hokusai, "Kanagawa oki nami ura (Under the well of the Great Wave off Kanagawa) ['Great Wave']" (1830–1831), Woodblock print, from the series Fugaku sanjurokkei (Thirty-six views of ...
A rare print of "The Great Wave off Kanagawa," one of art history's most iconic images, fetched a record $2.76 million at a Christie's auction in New York on Tuesday.