'71 Japanese Woodblock Print Decaying Beauty by Naoko Matsubara (SeF)

Up for sale from a recent client in Honolulu Hawaii, this 1971 Japanese limited edition 62/100 black and white woodblock print that is titled "decaying beauty" for the portfolio 'Solitude' that is signed in pencil by the artist Naoko Matsubara (born 1937). The condition is described above for more information please check the photos. Free local pick up possible!!!

Measurements:

Image 12 inches x 12 ⅝ inches

Sheet 15 ⅝ inches x 14 ¼ inches

More about the artist:

Naoko Matsubara was born in 1937 on the island of Shikoku, Japan, and grew up in Kyoto. Her father was one of the most senior Shinto priests in Japan, and her mother came from a very old Shinto family. After graduating from the Kyoto Academy of Fine Arts (now Kyoto Fine Arts University), she went to the United States as a Fulbright scholar, spending a year at the Carnegie Institute of Art (now Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburgh, where she received her MFA. Subsequently, she was invited to study at the Royal College of Art in London; and traveled extensively in Europe and Asia before returning to Japan in 1963. In 1965 she returned to the United States as personal assistant to Fritz Eichenberg, a wood-engraving artist, and historian of print-making. Matsubara taught at the Pratt Graphic Center in New York and at the University of Rhode Island, before settling in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a free-lance artist. In 1972, following her marriage to David Waterhouse, a professor of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto, she moved to Canada. She remains intensely active as an artist of single-sheet woodcuts, portfolios, and illustrated books, and a painter and a mural artist, working out of her studio in Oakville, Ontario. She has also traveled widely, written prolifically, and lectured in both English and Japanese. In 1981 she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Matsubara taught at Pratt Institute, the University of Rhode Island, and the University of California. Her work is represented in numerous museum collections: Albertina Museum, Vienna; Fogg Museum, Harvard University; Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Cincinnati Art Museum; Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art; Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art; Brooklyn Museum of Art; Detroit Art Institute; Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia; Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Boston Public Library; New York Public Library; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts. In 2009, a one-person retrospective of her work was held at the Carnegie Institute of Art, Pittsburgh.

Condition: 

The item is good pre-owned condition, strong even toning, no visible bleed through of the colors visible on the verso, it could be backed, the title is embossed and the artists seal is visible in the print but no pencil signature, will be taken out of mat and backing and shipped by itself for the most economical shipping charge