Lot 461: Maekawa Senpan (1888-1960)

Yama no shuku (Mountain inn), [1953]

The triangular hood, 1958

Haruna Fuji no aki (Lake Haruna, Fuji in autumn), [1957]

Man in festival costume, 1957

Old woman holding ear of corn, [1932]
Woodcuts, the first, second, third and fourth signed in pencil in Roman script Senpan Maekawa, the second in Japanese Maekawa Senpan, the first, third, fourth and fifth sealed in red Mae, the fifth with red Juda Collection seal on verso--very good impressions, good color, the second with tape stain at edge lower right, the third several tears bottom margin, some creases
20 1/2 x 24 1/4 in. (52. 61.7cm.), first; 18 x 13 3/8in. (45.8 x 33.9cm.), second; 14 9/16 x 19 1/4 in. (37 x 49.1cm.), third; 21 1/4 x 16 1/2 in. (53.8 x 41.9cm.), fourth; 21 1/4 x 16 1/2 in. (53.8 x 41.7cm.), fifth
Third with paper label affixed to verso Self Carved Self Printed, Sosaku-hanga, Yoseido Gallery. (5)

For other impressions of the first, third, fourth and fifth prints see Maekawa Senpan meisakuten/Exhibition of Prints by Senpan Maekawa (Tokyo: Riccar Art Museum, 1977), nos. 268, 314, 73 and 74 respectively.