Old poster of a man offering a bouquet of flowers to two girls. Size: 75.3cm X 52.6cm. Condition: Very good. Some minor tears at the bottom edges.

Rare original Shanghai poster,professionally framed,from the 1930's of Jiang Qing as a young actress. There are many reproductions of this poster, but this is an original that I acquired in China many years ago. Jiang Qing was noted for being Mao Tse Tung's fourth wife and a member of the "Gang of Four." Size: Frame. 85.8 x 69 cm. Poster. 62 x 46 cm. Condition: Normal ageing cracks and some minor repairs.

On studying this print, I was challenged by what Maki meant. Did he not get it right when he gave us a black sun? It looks so dark and foreboding even on the sunny wall in our residence in Beijing. If not a black sun, what color? The ranges are shown above. Or because the theme is a rather dark weapon, did he actually mean to do a dark image? one friend has said Maki would not do a war like image he did here

Tanaka Ryohei (b. 1933) is drawn to a wide range of subjects, particularly Japanese houses, shrines, temples, farmhouses, large, weathered trees, and winding lanes, but earlier in his career and occasionally in more recent years he has concentrated on a single piece of fruit or a roots, on segments of trees, tree branches and bark...

1971 was a big year for Haku Maki He did over 100 different images of Japanese prints. Some, like this one, were big prints this one is 30.5 Inches x 15.25 It is 68/108 this is the abstract kanji for Mu or Nothing and I entitled Nothing The kanji starts at the top then cascades down to the final four strokes at he bottom. From a distance it appears to me like the steps going from top to bottom of a building on a Chinese hill on the Yangzi...

Jelmoli - Spielwaren 
(Jelmoli Store - Children’s Toys) Baumberger, Otto, 1918 For Jelmoli, one of Zurich’s largest department store, the famous Zurich artist Otto Baumberger designed quite a few most extraordinary posters. This poster promotes the variety of toys sold at the famous store and is a very rare and finely printed poster in stone-lithography of the Wolfensberger printers. Printer: Graphische Anstalt J. E...

Famous French vintage lithograph by Leonetto Cappiello , the Italian master working at Vercasson in Paris. Perfectly showing off his use of exaggerated proportions, this poster gloriously portrays the ravenous excess one feels when presented with Union Biscuits. Size is 99x140 cm / 39x55 inch. C. 1910 lithograph in colours, printed by P.Vercasson & Cie., Paris, condition A-; backed on linen. Please contact me with any questions .

Excellent Condition with a few chips in frame . Some repairs to lithograph . Backed on linen. Whimsical 1927 Advertisement for Fertilizer by the artist Stephano. E.Jodet-Angibaud : La Rochelle : Marseilles I will provide a freight quote if you are interested once you give me your location . Please contact me with any questions . Frame measures 52" H. x 36" W . Lithograph is 47.2" H x 31.5" W .

BOSSARD-BONNEL RENNES VINTAGE POSTER. Musique Instruments, Vercasson, 1925. Framed size of the actual lithograph is 62" H x 41" W and the frame is 75 " H x 55" W. Photos are taken with frame, so some images are hard to see. Please let us know if you would like to see more photos. I presented one photo of the poster unframed for reference . Printed by VERCASSON (Paris) in January 1925 for BOSSARD-BONNEL , a major musical instrument store in the city of Rennes in northwestern France...

End Haku Maki tried to work until he died; the last images were not pretty. They were printed first on very thin paper, which was then “wrapped” around heavy shinkishi board. They are lithographs not done from wood blocks. From the late -`1980s Maki had stopped doing embossed prints burning instead to collages ad lithographed prints. These are among his last prints: \ As was Kyowa brand Shikishi board is made in Japan...

in 1990 Haku Maki produced as many as 6 different images of famed Mt Fuji Fuji-san here are 3 each print from a different block. lithographs in the print at the right -- blue mountain -- the blue starts out dark at the bottom and becomes lighter up the print

In 1971 Haku Maki Japanese Master print-maker was at the height of his creative powers He had already done several “big” prints and turned his skills to producing a dramatic prints, This Big Blue was one. It depicts a war instrument, a halberd Makli created this design so that it showed how character was written. He showed us how the stroke order flowed on a woodblock print...

In the early 1980s Haku Maki produced this unusual print. It has a kanji bottom margin (Mountain and Water) and is only slightly embossed. It is as if he started to do a lithograph and then decided to emboss it a bit It is a modest size print and not spectacular. By the time he did this print Maki had finished with embossed kanji and ceramics and was heading toward less compelling work. The design here is interrupting the abstract part for Mountain is also OK...

this research note was edited by Lois Dougan Tretiak whose assistance is gratefully noted.

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