Name: YOZO HAMAGUCHI Postcard Book - POST CARD PRINTART COLLECTION
SKU: 978-4947666734
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A collection of postcards featuring masterpieces by Yozo Hamaguchi, who established the color mezzotint technique of copperplate engraving.

A6 size (150 x 106 mm)
French binding, 52 pages in total
22 postcards
Words from the artist
Artist’s Words

Works
・The Roof of Paris
・19 and a cherry
・A bottle and a lemon
・A red bowl and black cherries
・A jug, grapes and a lemon
・Red plate
・Blue glass
・Cherries and asparagus
・Fish.
・Two ladybugs.
・Poplars.
・Lemon quarter
・Grapes on dark background
・Blue bowl with cherries
・Black cherries
・Two butterflies
・Watermelon
・14 cherries
・Butterflies and the sun
・Butterflies and the sun
・Yarn and a knitting stick
・Bottles, lemons, and red walls.

Category：Japanese Art Book, Japanese greeting card

Tag：Copper engraving, etching, Mezzotint, Postcard

Pages：: -
ISBN：: 978-4947666734
Release Date:: October, 2017
Language:: Japanese
Publisher:: reifu shobo

Author profile

Yozo Hamaguchi

Born on April 5, 1909 in Hiromura, Arita-gun, Wakayama Prefecture (now Hirogawa-cho). 1914 He moved to Choshi City, Chiba Prefecture. 1922 He moves to Tokyo. He entered Rikkyo Junior High School. He later transfers to Kyoka Middle School.

Around 1927, he studied under Western-style painter Mango Kobayashi and sculptor Daimu Tatehata.
In 1928, he entered the sculpture department of the Tokyo School of Fine Arts (now Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts).
In 1930, on the advice of Ryuzaburo Umehara, an acquaintance of his father, he dropped out of the Tokyo School of Fine Arts and went to France.
He later studied oil painting, watercolor and engraving at the Académie Grande Chaumière.