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• Lot n° 250 Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) "Snow at Kiyomizu Hall, Ueno," 1929 Woodcut in colors on Japanese laid paper Edition: 56/100 Signed "Hasui" in Japanese and with the red ink "Kawase" seal in the lower left image corner; with the printed title "Ueno Kiyomizudo no yuki" [Snow at Kiyomizu Hall in Ueno], and date "Showa yonen shichigatsu saku" [Work of July Showa 4 (1929)], all in Japanese, and in the lower margin; Sakai and Kawaguchi, pub., with the printed in blue ink, publishers' seals "Sakai Kawaguchi gohan" and their black ink chrysanthemum and water seal in the lower margin, at left; with the printed in blue carver's seal, Maeda and printer's seal, Komatsu, along the lower portion of the left margin; the verso with a paper label limited edition seal, hand-numbered in black ink "56," and signed and inscribed "Shohan seisen, hyaku mai no uchi, dai hyaku go, Hasui" [From 100 carefully selected prints of the first edition, no.56, Hasui], and stamped with the red ink "Kawase" seal Image: 14.375" H x 9.5" W; Sheet: 15.5" H x 10.625" W Provenance: The Estate of Mario Armond Zamparelli, La Cañada, CA Literature: Brown 181 Other Notes: The impression in this lot comes from an early edition jointly published by Sakai and Kawaguchi in Tokyo. The edition was limited to one hundred examples, each bearing a numbered label on the verso, along with the stamped Kawase seal, both of which are present on this print. Overall good appearance. With presumably full margins, the left and lower margin edges are deckled. The colors good. The smallest flecks of either unobtrusive foxing or surface soiling at the center of the lower margin. A quarter-sized cluster of pale staining on the verso of the upper left margin corner, and slightly showing on the recto. A soft 0.75" vertical handling mark in the lower margin, at left. Two artist pinholes along the upper margin, one in the upper left corner and the other at center, three pinholes in the lower left margin corner, and one pinhole in the image, just above the lower black printed border, at right. Three small remnants of brown paper tape on the verso, along the upper margin edge. The sheet is loose, not matted. Unframed