Ohara Koson, 'Four crows in flight', 'Geese and a full moon', 'Wisteria and bee'.
Three woodcuts framed. Image areas 34 x 18.5, 23.2 x 24.4, and 33.6 x 18.5 cm. The frame 60.5 x 102 cm.
Spots. Wisteria-print with small hole/damage. Not examined out of the frame. The fram without glass.
From the collection of Cleive Hornstrand and his wife, née Grill, thence by descent.
Ohara Koson (also Ohara Hōson, Ohara Shōson) was a Japanese painter and woodblock print designer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, at the forefront of shinsaku-hanga and shin-hanga art movements. Ohara Koson was famous as a master of kachō-e (bird-and-flower) designs. Throughout a prolific career, in which he created around 500 prints, he went by three different titles: Ohara Hōson (小原豊邨), Ohara Shōson (小原祥邨) and Ohara Koson.
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