Artist: Maki, Haku (Japanese 1924 - 2000)
Title: Poem Z
Date: 1966
Medium: relief print in colors
Dimension: 16 x 16 inches
Edition: edition of 50
Description: The artist was born with the name Maejima Tadaaki in 1924 in the small town Asomachi in the Ibaraki Prefecture of Japan. He graduated at Ibaraki Teachers' College and became vice-principal of an elementary school there. In 1945 he was in a special squadron of kamikaze pilots and his life was to be ended. However, with the surrender of Japan on August 14, 1945 his life was spared, and he became a teacher at a high school. He studied printmaking at the Modern Print Research Society with Koshiro Onchi andi, in 1950 he changed his name to Haku Maki. His work has a few characteristic design elements for which he became famous - deep embossing and the use of distorted Chinese characters.
Signature: pencil signed
Provenance: International Galleries
Frame Type: gilded wood
Frame Size: 22 x 22 inches

in seemingly good condition unexamined outside of the frame