Katsushika Hokusai — Deer | Ukiyo-e Print

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Katsushika Hokusai — Deer | Ukiyo-e PrintKatsushika Hokusai (17601849) was the towering genius of Japanese printmaking, whose career spanned seven decades and produced some of the most recognisable images ever made. His Thirty Six Views of Mount Fuji including The Great Wave off Kanagawa are the defining works of Edo period art and among the most reproduced images in human history. Hokusai's influence on Western artists, from Monet to Van Gogh, is unparalleled. Collecting his work is

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and virtually every colour-forward movement that followed is incalculable

Gejza Schiller (1897–1948) was a Slovak-Bohemian artist whose work combined Expressionist figuration with the formal geometry of the Central European avant-garde

and an almost cinematic scale of imagination

Zeshin's prints are prized by collectors of both Japanese and world art

Standing in a museum

Strawberry Thief

he developed a style of tender informality — childlike in the best sense — that stands apart from both the formal bijinga tradition and the more abstract tendencies of mid-century Sōsaku-hanga

hand-made to order

represent the apex of Persian court painting

Frames are solid ash and oak

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