A collection of 17 Japanese woodblock prints by artists including Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) and Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861), sold £650. Other leading prices were £1,200 for a 19 th pair of ...

He was a commercial artist; many of his pictures – "of crowds milling over bridges towards famous shrines" or "twirling their ...

The ancient Japanese tradition of “ukiyo-e,” expressed largely through woodblock prints, captured the burgeoning city of ...

It was while walking the (deceptively long) stretch between Odeonsplatz and St. Ludwig that I first encountered the ...

During this time the country was ruled by the Tokugawa shogunate. An exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago features over 30 of Tōshūsai Sharaku’s rarely shown ukiyo-e prints exemplifying the ...

34 x 28 cm. (13.4 x 11 in.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...

Caio Marcolini’s fascination with organic systems began simply enough. It was “the trail left by the sea on the sand, the intertwined roots of trees within the forest, (and) the flowers falling from ...

Three alleged members of a robbery crew were charged with the kidnapping of two Queens-based drug dealers last week, bringing the total number of defendants in the case to six.