$400–$3,000. Common subjects: $400–$1,000. Key value factors: Okuyama's prints are relatively affordable. Bold, well-preserved examples are most valued.
"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.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Montmartre was created by Gihachiro Okuyama (奥山儀八郎).
Montmartre depicts urban scenes, landscapes, and architecture.
