Catalog: Artists (11)

Print entitled "Angeles Time" by Mayumi Oda depicting a baby angel sitting on top of a turnip or similar root vegetable. Little hands are clasped in prayer and an exuberance of leaves reaches upwards. "Angels live in the garden...you can call on them anytime!" - Mayumi Oda. This print is signed and titled in pencil. It is print #35 of a series of 66. Framed.

Printed in 2003

Dimensions: Framed: 20 3/8" high x 15 1/2" wide Art: 20 3/8" high x 15 1/2" wide

Chinese painting of a pair of a pair of ducks swimming under blossoming branches by the artist, Cui Zifan (1915–2011) ...

Wonderful medium-sized crater bowl, thinly potted of black clay and with glossy black glaze pitted with craters for volcanic moon-like effect, Signed Lovera; James Lovera (American, 1920-2015) modernist potter. Teacher at San Jose State University. James Lovera exhibited at the Crocker Museum in Sacramento in 2006: "Craters of Fire: Ceramics by James Lovera". With original inventory tag.

Age: c. 1990s.

Size: 8.5" Diameter x 5.25" Height

Japanese woodblock print of a black cat with piercing blue eyes. Titled "Black Cat", # 24/100 in its series, signed T. Nishida in pencil with red chop.

Tadashige Nishida was born in 1942 on Amami Oshima Island in Japan, where he studied art at Chiba University. He moved to Spain in the 1960s and later to the United States to study as a post-graduate. He is most well-known for his works depicting cats, though he has released works depicting nature scenes of trees and Mt. Fuji...

Mayumi Oda print 15/66, the title is painted in black on black, "Mother Help Us Outgrow Our Madness and Fear". A female form holds a baby and is preparing to feed it. Signed, titled and numbered at the bottom. Red Stamp.

N'aie Pas Peur by Mayumi Oda. N'aie pas peur translates has have not fear, the piece is also known as The Black Madonna. A mother and child stand together under a golden mandorla. The mother is Mary, mother of Jesus, she holds a white lily. This is print 7/50.

Contemporary print by Mayumi Oda. A baby rides a catfish that leaps out of the ocean. The waves are outlined below the fish. The print is signed at the bottom in pencil.

Japanese 20th century print of the Treasure Ship on the River of Our Mind 32/50 by Mayumi Oda. Mayumi Oda is a contemporary artist who studied fine art and traditional fabric dying at the Tokyo University of Fine Arts. She is known by many as the Matisse of Japan. A young maiden, playing a stringed instrument, rides on a dragon shaped ship loaded with treasures. The ship floats along orange waves. The print has red and orange pigment with golden clouds and other gold accents...

Mayumi Oda. b. 1941 in Tokyo. "Chant of the Ocean Nautiles" and "Chant of the Ocean Conce" two complimenting artist proofs woodblock prints with gold and white ink printed in black paper. 17.5 x 25.5 inches and 29.25 x 42 inches with frame. No condition problems to note. According to her own biography Mayumi Oda is known to many as the ‘Matisse of Japan’, Mayumi Oda has done extensive work with female goddess imagery...

Beautiful mezzotint print of a black and blue night scene with a waning crescent moon behind Japanese primroses in bloom. Artist: Yoshihiku Kaya, edition 39/75. No condition problems to note. Size: 8.5 x 4.25 inches and 20.25 x 14.25 inches with frame.

Tetsuya Noda, born 1940 in Kyushu. The art is a framed silkscreen mixed media work, part of the "Diary" series dated August 26th, 1985. The image and title is of his home town in Kayuwara. The edition is 11 of 15. The image size is 36 x 23 inches and 47.5 x 35.625 inches with frame. Excellent condition. Noda is part of the Sōsaku-hanga art movement and is considered a major 20th century Japanese artist.