<b>NIGHT AT SHINAGAWA</b> / Negoro Raizan1922<b>SOLD</b></em>
ARTIST: Negoro Raizan (1877–?)
TITLE: Night at Shinagawa
MEDIUM: Woodblock print
DATE: 1922
DIMENSIONS: 14 5/8 x 9 1/4 inches
CONDITION: Excellent
PROVENANCE: Robert O. Muller
LITERATURE: Amy Reigle Stephens, gen. ed., The New Wave: Twentieth-century Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection, 1993, pl. 200
NOTE: Silver metallic pigments in water
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SOLD
ARTIST: Negoro Raizan (1877–?)
TITLE: Night at Shinagawa
MEDIUM: Woodblock print
DATE: 1922
DIMENSIONS: 14 5/8 x 9 1/4 inches
CONDITION: Excellent
PROVENANCE: Robert O. Muller
LITERATURE: Amy Reigle Stephens, gen. ed., The New Wave: Twentieth-century Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection, 1993, pl. 200
NOTE: Silver metallic pigments in water
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SOLD
ARTIST: Negoro Raizan (1877–?)
TITLE: Night at Shinagawa
MEDIUM: Woodblock print
DATE: 1922
DIMENSIONS: 14 5/8 x 9 1/4 inches
CONDITION: Excellent
PROVENANCE: Robert O. Muller
LITERATURE: Amy Reigle Stephens, gen. ed., The New Wave: Twentieth-century Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection, 1993, pl. 200
NOTE: Silver metallic pigments in water
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SOLD
Details
Night at Shinagawa is Raizan’s undisputed masterpiece and among the most sought-after designs within the shin hanga genre. The print is a masterful study of moonlight as it advances across the ocean. Indiscriminate shadows throughout the composition suggest passing clouds overhead. The myriad of ocean waves is captured by a combination of expertly carved and printed lines of varied angles, thicknesses, and lengths rendered in silver pigment, which unite at the upper portion of the design, forming the vast expanse of horizon bathed in moonlight. This design is inspired, and perhaps no other design in shin hanga conveys a stronger poetic spirit.
Connoisseur's Note
Night in Shinagawa is a highly sought-after pre-earthquake design, and as such, rarely comes up for sale. This woodblock print was acquired by Robert O. Muller, the famed shin hanga collector, on his trip to Japan in the late 1930s, and has never been framed or displayed. The print’s colors and condition are a testimony to the care it received.