May Online Antique & Art Auction

Lot 98:

Ohno Bakufu 1888-1976 Woodblock Print Farming

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Start price: $50

Estimated price: $100 - $200

Buyer's premium: 25%

Bakufu Ohno (1888-1976) was born in Tokyo. He moved to Kansai after the great Kantou earthquake in 1923. Ohno exhibited oil paintings at Teiten in 1929. He was an honorary member of the Hyogo Prefecture Academy of Fine Arts, and a member of Taiheiyogakai. Ohno produced many landscape and fish prints, including the Familiar Fishes of Nippon (Dai Nihon gyorui gashu) in 1940, which was published by Kyoto Hanga-in; blocks were carved by Matsuda and Kikuda, printed by Shinagawa, Nagae, Uchida and Ohno. Frame Measure 16.5" x 12.5".