Sebastian Izzard LLC Asian Art

Our spring exhibition explores the graphic culture of Edo in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The introduction of color printing in the 1760s led to new techniques which were quickly adopted by the skilled craftsmen employed by the publishers of the period. The exhibition also chronicles changes in fashions and political affairs that affected the world of ukiyo-e, both in representations of the licensed entertainment quarter of Yoshiwara and the city at large.

This exhibition features works made during the early part of the twentieth century, an era of energy, new influences and styles, and a refocusing and revival of the Jpaanes print genre.

This exhibition focuses on the last 60 years of the Edo period, with both painted and printed maps, landscapes, historical tableaux, and studies of the natural world.

Head-and-shoulder portraits (okubi-e) of actors, courtesans, and famous beauties. Utagawa Kunimasa (1773-1810) Ichikawa Omezo as Tashiro Yasubei Color woodblock print, 4/1796

KUBO SHUNMAN (1757‒1820) A Pipe and Decorative Tobacco Pouch with Ojime Bead and Manju Netsuke Color woodblock print with metallic pigments: shikishiban surimono, 7⅞ x 7¼ in. (20 x 18.4 cm); 1813 Artist’s seal: Shunman

The fall exhibition at Sebastian Izzard LLC Asian Art will offer a survey of ukiyo-e from the introduction of two-color printing in the 1740s up to the end of the eighteenth century. Paintings, woodblock prints, and illustrated books by Katsushika Hokusai (1760‒1849), artists of the Katsukawa School, and Kitagawa Utamaro (1754‒1896) are included.

Paintings, prints, and illustrated books by nineteenth century ukiyo-e master Utagawa Kunisada.

Sebastian Izzard LLC will exhibit Japanese paintings, woodblock prints and illustrated books, and seventeenth century Nabeshima ceramics selected from our inventory during Asia Week this September. KAWANABE KYŌSAI (1831–1889) Two Crows on a Branch Overlooking Asakusa at Dawn Hanging scroll: ink and color on silk; 39⅛ x 13¾ in. (99.5 x 34.9 cm); Meiji era (1868–1912), 1883 Signed: Joku Nyūdo Kyōsai zu Sealed: Bankoku tobu (Flying over many lands) Provenance: Josiah Conder

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) Chinese Bell Flowers and Dragonfly Color woodblock print: oban yoko-e (25.7 x 37.8 cm) Signed: Saki no Hokusai Iitsu hitsu Publisher: Eijudo (Nishimuraya Yohachi)