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All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1980 item #1138739
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Poem 72-47 (road) 32 X 21.5 inches textured paper The sun is the inner part of the kanji for road. This is a very big and stunning Maki print It was done in 1972 at the height of his artistic powers. It depicts the kanji for Road or Way, e.g.the Way of Taoism (Daoism). As if done with a brush, the character whooshes across the well-textured paper. At the middle of the print, Maki has added a White Sun.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 2000 item #1135503
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In 1960 Maki did the image shown. It is called Symbol. In all the years of collecting Maki prints and images I have never seen this one again. It is quite large but seems cluttered. Forty years later he did it as a print and a post card even as one friend has suggested he did the print before 1999, the date on the print. The seals are authentic not printed, and they are original Maki seals from well-used chops.
All Items : Artists : Mixed Media : Pre 1980 item #1130265
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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.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1990 item #1127290 (stock #3018)
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persimmons galore. 81-3 added. * means I own it.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1990 item #1125346
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Haku Maki did many prints some with interesting backgrounds some not. This modest run of rather large pints had a special black background: it is the texture of old leather. . Maki created and used this technique only in 1981 prints and mainly in persimmons. The persimmons are plump and meaty the green leaves of the fruit are nicely proportioned. Maki did only a few twin persimmon prints and none after 1980 except this one. 81-10 is in frame 2. It is 12 x 18 inches 46 cm x 32 cm “The stem and leaf of the persimmon tree are done in raised glossy black urushi lacquer. “ The persimmon appears in autumn in Japan (and China) and is associated with that season The other one is 81 31 only one known to me gray leather like black. 81 32 We have added 81-10. A single persimmon with the distinctive gray background. I do not know the title of the print in frame 5 8110, 30 31 40 no number 32 white 50
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1990 item #1123358
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Work 73-12A is a firm and strong dragon not fierce not wimpy. The central kanji is offset by a small yellow Maki sun at the top left and a red splash on the right. They counterbalance each other and give color and verve to the whole print.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1970 item #1120486
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Maki's Emanation series may well have been 100 different images. This is an early one. It shows a young man ready to grope a woman’s breasts. Who is the man and who is the woman? Adam and Eve? Maki and his wife? Maki and another woman? It measures 16" x 16". Here I show images of the current emanation and single images of other prints in the Emanation series. The last frame is Emanation 100.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Woodcuts : Pre 1990 item #1119025
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Work 73-5 is a funny, lively snowman--or snow child. It is number 28 of an edition of 103 and measures 9.5in W x 17.5in H.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Contemporary item #1118380
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In 1970 Japanese print maker Haku Maki (1921 – 2000) produced this large Wind image. It is 84c x 84 cm; 33 " x 33" . Provenance; Maki produced this print and this copy was sold to a Japanese buyer it stayed in Japan until it came to me last week in Beijing this is one of the few times I have been able to obtain a Maki print from Japan not through a dealer. When the previous owner decided to sell he did so through an auction in Japan; then it was fully restore in Tokyo and I acquired it. Because of its size it may be called Big Wind or even more poetically Diviner Wind. The main image shows a rounded not square stroke for the outer part of the image. Within this perimeter there are three black strokes to fill out the kanji for Wind Then Maki added his own touches --a large Yellow Sun and a quite small brown splash. This fairly complex set of stokes is balanced off by Maki’s seal of the day and a black kanji for Maaki’s surname. Maki did a number of big prints However he seems to have done less than ten prints this large Two known to me were done in 1973; if he did more I have still to find them. This print is 32/ 50. 33" x 33" last image is Poem woman
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1970 item #1117872
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Maki Poem 616 earluy print still with single layer of paper. The image is of a Bird and Moon. This print has been fully restored
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1980 item #1113250
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One of Maki’s favorite themes was the image shown here. Some outstanding ones are shown in the listing. I reckon Maki did about 25 different prints with the theme Child. Several little children can be seen swimming in the image in frame 9. The child in the right of this list panel is the image imprinted in the cover of Festive Wine, to which Maki contributed 21 images in 1969.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1980 item #1111438
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Dealing with challenges and difficulties can keep your mind sharp. The print is number 140 of 152.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Woodcuts : Pre 1980 item #1102997
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Haku Maki was a Japanese print master of the late 20th century. His prints at the time this one was published were strong on the use of kanji and abstract designs, as shown here. In this case; the design is abstract, it shows archaic images which we are trying to understand. The print is large, well designed and carried off. The seller Ashley Brasca of Winnipeg Canada wrote to me about this print: “It is special because of the texture and physical quality achieved on the surface. This artist has used special reduction print making technique on cement to create an exceptional implied texture to the surface of the print, there is also a strong depth of color too. I am an art teacher myself and i studied printmaking at University of Manitoba. For this reason i recognized its quality. ” Poem 68-3 is a good mid-60s Big Red. It is very abstract, and I still do not know the meaning of the ideographs in the print. It has no kanji in the bottom margin to help me understand what Maki was portraying. Such lack of information is not rare in Maki prints of this period. The left side of the print shows a figure for child; we are not clear about the rest.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1980 item #1098002
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Haku Maki did quite a number of prints using persimmon as a main theme Probably well over 100 He also began doing prints with ceramics around 1980 He probably did more than 100 ceramics theme prints. But the two there only came together in the persimmon and blue vase print shown here (and in an equally rare one with a persimmon and a strikingly beautiful yellow vase also shown here). This persimmon and vase print was done in 1975 and is quite rare: It is work 75-2 94/202 The two persimmon print is simply titled Persimmon. It is 62/150. Speaking as one outside the culture, the persimmon could represent transience. Once picked, they have a brief period of perfection before decay. Maki's images often evoke this feeling: the autumn leaf, the bare branch, the single flower or fruit. What do you think?
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Contemporary item #1096993
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Haku Maki was a major creative Japanese print maker of the second half of the 20th century. His major output from 1965 to 1990 consisted to several different themes of prints Kanji was the main theme for the first 15 years of that period. Then. Ceramics was second. But he also did a large number of prints with persimmon on theme. Most of the persimmon prints showed just one fruit. A few showed two Only two showed 3. These are shown here Both prints are serene no jarring colors or edges. The one with 3 clearly visible one shows 3 different persimmons side by side The shadow persimmon are quiet hard to see even when held in hand. Both prints are well done, sharp clear images. The typical bottom margin shows the edition number the Maki signature and title of the print From 1971 to the early 80s he did well over 100 prints with Persimmon as the main theme The print with the colored persimmons is Kaki Z-1 The white persimmons print is simply 81-3 manning It was done in 1981 persimmon is sign of autumn i am told As autumn wanes, and first snows arrive, persimmons are a radiant reminder of beauty in a time of decline and decay, offering hope that the beauty of the fruit will attract birds to disseminate seeds for regrowth in the spring. Hence a sign of joy, beauty and hope for the future...... The last frame is from a private collection in Asia. I cannot ascertain the title or the year. Maki used the same blocks for the last two images.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1990 item #1092512
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July remains; Nov Dec SOLD
Haku Maki started making embossed prints circa 1965. These in the main featured embossing that came out from the back to the front. However, I suddenly discovered that a number of prints in the 1976 - 1977 period were done with the embossing going into not out of the front This style or process does not seem to have hurt any aspect of Maki’s work nor benefited it. I have commented on this departure in style to a few friends but they have said the equivalent of "let It be." Is that all we can say? Shown here are the images for July, November and December. In these 3 prints, Maki did the embossing in the way I just described.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1990 item #1086965
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The kanji for Peach appears in the uppper right of the print. 17 of 24 Haku Maki was one of the grand masters of the Sosaku-hanga print movement. Maki Haku (1924-2000) is the artistic name of Maejima Tadaaki, who was born in Ibaraki Prefecture. He had no formal art training, but was guided by the s¨­saku hanga leading artist Onchi Ko­shiro 1891-1955). Maki Haku is best known for his abstract-calligrapic prints. He distorted and rearranged characters and strokes to produce striking and serene images. Maki passed away in 2000; as a result his prints are rapidly escalating in price and value as this talented artist will no longer be producing his unique work. ¨adapted from Robert Berg's listing
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1980 item #1083956
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From 1969 to 1974 Haku Maki produced about 15 Big Red prints and some Big Blue and Green. This one,Poem 71-52, was done in 1971. It depicts the kanji for Power. This striking image slices through the black background from top to bottom in a two-stroke movement. In the classic Maki mode, the core image is set off by a black sun at the left and a small blue moon under it; on the other side there is a yellow splash. The regular Maki seal is used; also he used a white ink seal to add color and verve. The red kanji pierces through the dark of the background from top to bottom in a whoosh. This print was restored by Michael Minckler of Oregon. Translation Advisor: Sanae Nakajima Chambers. Size: 19.5 x 12.5 inches.