Unknown- Girl with three flowers

Catalog note / 解説

Wednesday, 17 August 2005 PLEASE NOTE: Whilst the colour of the flowers is a very delicate pink, their definitin is rather better than than captured by my camera in the photo below, as is the pencil signature, and the Japanese characters on the back of the folder mount. ITEM: Limited Edition signed woodblock print of a girl with flowers by Japanese artist SHUZO IKEDA BRIEF DETAILS ABOUT THE ARTIST: Born 1922 in Kisakata-machi, Japan. Graduated from school 1945. Taught in Akita 1946--1955. Worked in Tokyo as a Hanga artist. Shuzo carefully employed the texture of wood in his prints, and specialised in styalised wide-eyed children with flowers, birds, insects, sacred stone images, and native…