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This Raymer Society Consignment Art Auction includes more than 100 works of fine art. Consigned to the auction are original works by Lester Raymer, including 2 oil paintings, a linocut, a linocut, a crayon resist, and a metal rooster. Also up for auction will be works by Birger Sandzén, including 2 linocuts, and a lithograph. In addition, there will be works by Prairie Print Makers, many Sanzdén students, Kansas and Midwest, national and international artists.
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LOT 1:
Maki, Haku (1924-2000) "Collection-30, 1979 woodcut
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Maki, Haku (1924-2000) "Collection-30, 1979 woodcut
Haku Maki (1924-2000) "Collection-30" 60/166, 1979 woodcut, pencil signed in lower left, good condition, no mat or frame, image size:9.25 x 8 inches. Maki Haku (1924?2000) is the artistic name of Maejima Tadaaki, who was born in Ibaraki Prefecture. He was a sosaku-hanga artist in 20th Century Japan. During World War II, Maejima Tadaaki was trained as a kamikaze pilot in the Japanese air force, but the war ended before he was assigned a mission. Haku had no formal art training, but studied for two years with the sosaku-hanga artist Onchi Koshiro (1891?1955). Two unique qualities of Maki Haku prints are the textures achieved by working the designs in wet cement and the use of Kanji (Chinese characters) as design motifs. In 1962, he started adding texture to his prints. At first, he added texture to the entire sheet after it was printed. In 1965, he began embossing designs into unprinted paper by using a press to transfer a design created in cement on a carved plywood board, and then adding color with stencils. He distorted and rearranged the strokes of Chinese characters to produce striking and serene images. For example, Poem 71-91 is a highly stylized representation of the kanji, which is pronounced mu and means nothingness, an important concept in some forms of Buddhism. The artist participated in the Tokyo International Print Biennale in 1957 and 1960. The book Festive Wine: Ancient Japanese Poems from the Kinkafu is a translation of 21 ancient poems called Kinkafu or Music for Wagon Songs. The translation is accompanied by Maki Haku's prints that were made in 1968?69. The Art Institute of Chicago, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Modern Art (New York), and the Philadelphia Museum of Art are among the public collections holding prints by Haku Maki.
Condition: good condition, no mat or frame
Dimensions: 11 x 9.5 in
