Key value factors: Edition order (first Watanabe/Doi printing vs. posthumous reprints) is crucial. Snow scenes, night views, and bijin-ga typically command premiums. Publisher seals and artist signatures authenticate first editions.
An untitled woodblock print by Ishiwata Koitsu whose subject and provenance records have not been preserved. The print's existence testifies to the breadth of his production during the active years of the shin-hanga movement, when printmakers working within the collaborative publisher-carver-printer system produced large numbers of compositions for domestic and international markets. Each untitled work represents a specific artistic decision — a subject chosen, a composition developed, a palette selected — whose particulars are now accessible only through the print itself.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Untitled (ishiwata-koitsu) was created by Ishiwata Koitsu (石渡光逸).
Untitled (ishiwata-koitsu) depicts urban scenes, landscapes, and animals.
