Hokusai
(Japanese, 1760–1849)
Biography
Hokusai was a seminal Japanese artist known for his ukiyo-e paintings and prints. Hokusai’s most iconic works include The Great Wave off Kanagawa (c. 1828–1833) and his series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (c. 1830–1832). “All I have produced before the age of 70 is not worth taking into account. At 73 I have learned a little about the real structure of nature, of animals, plants, trees, birds, fishes and insects,” he once said. Born Katsushika Hokusai on October 30, 1760 in Edo (present-day Tokyo), Japan, he began painting at a young age, and apprenticed to a woodcarver as a teenager. At the age of 18, he was accepted into the studio of Katsukawa Shunsho, whose paintings focused on depicting the merchant class. With the death of Shunsho in 1793, Hokusai’s work began to take on the characteristic style for which he is now known. Over the following decades, he illustrated novels and produced his famous Hokusai Manga (1814), a copybook for beginners. The artist died at the age of 88, on May 10, 1849 in Tokyo, Japan. His paintings and woodblock prints, as well as those by other Japanese artists, had a profound impact on the development of the 19th-century European painters Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, and Vincent van Gogh. Today, Hokusai’s works are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, and the Sumida Hokusai Museum in Tokyo, among others.
Hokusai Artworks
Hokusai
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.jpg "Senju hanamachi yori chobo no Fuji (Fuji Seen in")
-[“great-wave.jpg "Kanagawa oki nami ura (Under the well of the...")
.jpg "Totomi sanchu (In the Mountains of Totomi...")
.jpg "Bushu Tamagawa (The Tama “Jewel” River in...")
-[“great-wave.jpg "Kanagawa oki nami ura (Under the well of the...")
.jpg "Yamashiro Arashiyama Togetsukyo (The “Reflected...")
.jpg "Mikawa no Yatsuhashi no kozu (Eight-plank bridge")
.jpg "Shojin tozan (Groups of mountain climbers)")
.jpg "Minobugawa ura Fuji (Mount Fuji beyond the...")
.jpg "Sunshu Katakura chaen no Fuji (Mount Fuji from...")
-[“red-fuji.jpg "Gaifu kaisei (Fine wind, clear weather) [“Red Fuji")
.jpg "Buyo Tsukudajima (Tsukudajima island in Musashi...")
![Nobotoura (Coast of Noboto [in Shimosa province])](http://qa1.artnet-dev.com/WebServices/images/ll00233lldQCbJFgUNECfDrCWQFHPKcZbnF/hokusai-nobotoura-(coast-of-noboto-[in-shimosa-province]).jpg "Nobotoura (Coast of Noboto [in Shimosa province])")
.jpg "Soshu Hakone no kosui (Hakone Lake in Sagami...")
.jpg "Onden no suisha (Waterwheel at Onden)")
.jpg "Koshu Mishimagoe (Mishima Pass in Kai province)")
,-1834-35;-ca.-1849-(vol.-3).jpg "Fugaku hyakkei (One hundred views of Mount..., 1849")
Hokusai
Fugaku hyakkei (One hundred views of Mount..., 1849
Sale Date: March 19, 2019
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Hokusai
Rainstorm Below the Summit, Sanka Haku-U, 1800–1899
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