Two dragon year prints, in very very good condition,embossed blue, done in 1976, a year of the dragon.
Haku Maki's dragon prints have nicely flowing kanji script We suspect he may have used the same mixed media implements to produce both prints. The blue one is 37/150. we have only seen one copy of each print: they must have all been snapped up by Year of the Dragon folk.
Japan New Discoveries of Haku Maki prints As found by robert craft we think that these are new additions to our Maki Catalogue Raisonne
Dedicated with much love to my
wife Lois Jeanne Dougan Tretiak
copyright Feb 16 2018 PP aka Ph
Maki not only did Large red kanji on black backgrounds, which I have denominated Big Reds.He also did Big Yellows, as in this dramatic print Poem 71-7 (Mind). Size: 32.6 x 17.2in/83 x 44cm.
For comparison, I've also included Poem 68-71 (Mind). It is in frame 8.
Work 73-6 Bizarre Maki. this print was done in early 1973 It is one of the ugliest Maki prints I have ever seen. In this period Maki did some of his largest prints and some also with seemingly weird qualities. But these big ones – easily seen to be a variation of Nothing or Mu—are not riddles. We know what they are because Maki told us what he meant. Here, he left no such advice. Several friends have also said they do not know what Maki meant So we leave it at that for now. 10.75 x 10.5 inch paper. Frame 6 shows a large Mu. The image is my new acquisition, somewhat like Work 73-6 but not understandable now.