Montmartre
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
"Montmartre" takes Okuyama outside Japan entirely to depict the famous hill in Paris — the artists' quarter that was the heart of bohemian European art in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, its white basilica of the Sacre-Coeur visible from across the city. That a Japanese sosaku-hanga artist would depict Montmartre reflects both the internationalism of the postwar Japanese print world and the cross-cultural dialogue between Japanese and Western art that had defined printmaking on both sides since the 1850s. Okuyama's rendering would have applied his Japanese woodblock sensibility to a quintessentially Western subject.
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Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Montmartre was created by Gihachiro Okuyama (奥山儀八郎).
Montmartre depicts urban scenes, landscapes, and architecture.