flower 花 - 1980s - Tokuriki Tomikichiro 徳力富吉郎 (1902-2000) - Japan

Good condition.
Whole size: 35cm*48.5cm
main size: 31cm*41cm

Author:
Tomikichiro Tokuriki (March 22, 1902 – July 1, 2000) was a Japanese printmaker active from the late Meiji period to the Heisei period.
Tomikichiro Tokuriki was born and raised in Kyoto, the 12th generation in a long family line of artists serving the Honganji Temple. After first studying painting at the Kyoto City School of Fine Arts and Crafts, and the Kyoto City Specialist School of Painting, he entered the atelier of the painter Tsuchida Bakusen in 1928 before switching to woodblock prints the following year. He was a member of several art and print organizations, exhibiting frequently, and was particularly associated with promoting sosaku hanga (self-carved, self-printed 'creative prints') in Kyoto. Before the war he published his prints with Uchida, Unsodo and Kyoto Hanga-in, where sometimes he would handle the carving of the blocks, sometimes he would delegate those tasks to other artisans within the publishing houses. After the war he established the Matsukyu Publishing Company to distribute his own self-carved, self-printed works, as well as that of some of his fellow sosaku-hanga artists and to provide training for carving and printing. He was prolific landscape artist, producing very few figural works. Stylistically this scarce print does bear some affinity to a well-known portrait of the artist' wife from 1947 (variously dated 1935) titled Woman Combing Her Hair.