JUNICHIRO SEKINO (Japanese, 1914-1988)

Ishibe, 1967 Japanese woodblock print signed and sealed.Sekino studied at Nishida Takeo's Japanese Etching Institute and enrolled at private school to learn oil painting and drawing. Sekino created over 400 prints. His years of studying printmaking techniques enabled him to produce work of aconsistent and extremely high quality, in excess of most of his contemporary sosaku hanga artists. Onchi honoured him in allowing Sekino to reprint his Portrait of Hagiwara Sakutaro, and he assisted Maekawa Senpan in his Hot Spring Notes series. with frame: L. 69.8 cm (27 2/5 in.); W. 40.5 cm (16 in.); without frame: L. 54 cm (21 1/4 in.); W. 23.5 cm (9 1/4 in.)