Kiyoshi HASEGAWA |
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Hasegawa, born 1891 in Yokohama, was the eldest son of the banker Hasegawa Kazuhiko. Hasegawa grew up in wealthy circumstances, but lost his father early in 1902, as well as his mother Yoshiko soon after, while he was still enrolled at Azabu Middle School in central Tokyo. After graduating from Azabu Middle School, Hasegawa enrolled at Aoibashi Academy for Western-style Painting to study sketching with Kuroda Seiki, at the same time attending classes on oil painting at Hongo Academy under Saburosuke Okada and Takeji Fujishima. He furthermore was taught etching by Bernard Leach. In 1913, Hasegawa participated in the art journal “Kamen” (Mask), for which he produced woodblock printed cover art and illustrations. In 1918, he moved to France. |
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Hasegawa’s devotion to print making soon garnered him a spot in the Salon d’Automne, held in Paris, followed by his first solo exhibition of woodblock prints in 1925. His admission as a member of the Salon d’Automne in the following year confirmed his rising reputation in the Parisian art world of the mid-1920s. While after the outbreak of the Second World War many foreign artists chose to return to their home countries, Hasegawa opted to stay in France. Though this decision caused him hardship for his continuing life in Paris, he stayed active as an artist, particularly working in copperplate technique, and mezzotint, an art form Hasegawa helped to revive. He in fact never returned to Japan but died at his home in Paris in 1980, aged 89. |
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 "Temple of the tree and village" 1959 Etching Image size: 33.5×24.0cm Sheet size: 51.5×38.0cm Ed.100 Signed |
 "Village de Volx" 1927 Mezzotint Image size: 20.1×28.0cm Sheet size: 33.0×46.0cm Ed.50 Signed |
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 Illustration for "The Complete Poems of Konosuke Hinatsu, Book 1" Copperplate print 12.0×6.6cm SOLD |
 "Parisienne Pigeon" Copperplate print 11.5×8.5cm Signed SOLD |
 "View from a Window (Fenetre du Chateau de Venevilles)" 1941 Copperplate print 29.0×21.5cm Ed.50 Signed SOLD |
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 "Bathing Girl and Fish" 1971 Copperplate print 20.7x13.8cm Ed.60 Signed SOLD |
 "View from a Window" (from Portrait of Kiyoshi Hasegawa) 1963 Copperplate print 21.0×16.8cm Ed.220 SOLD |
 "Apples and Grapes" 1931 Copperplate print Image size: 16.4×28.2cm Sheet size: 32.8×43.8cm Ed.35 Signed SOLD |
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 "Songbird and Ants" 1959 Copperplate print 24.7×36.0cm Printed in only small numbers (E.A. only) Signed Raisonné No.312 SOLD |
 "Rose and Time" 1961 Copperplate print 35.7×26.5cm Ed.70 Signed Raisonné No.320 SOLD |
 "Rose" 1963 Copperplate print 14.5×14.5cm Ed.20 Signed Raisonné No.333 SOLD |
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 "Seated Bathing Girl" 1926 Engraving 29.2×21.7cm Ed.30 (otherwise E.A.) Stamp signed Raisonné No.180 SOLD |
 "Wild Flowers in a Cup" (from Portrait of Kiyoshi Hasegawa) 1963 Burin engraving 20.7×16.7cm Ed.220 Signedd Raisonné No.336 SOLD |
 "Still Life with Glass Sphere" 1963 Mezzotint 21.0×17.0cm Ed.220 Signed Raisonné No.337 SOLD |
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