Gihachiro Okuyama ゴッホ 『眼帯をした老人』(Gogh: "Old Man Wearing an Eye-Patch")

Gihachiro Okuyama’s 1960 Woodblock 「ゴッホ 『眼帯をした老人』」 (Gogh: "Old Man Wearing an Eye-Patch") distills Van Gogh’s expressive linework into bold black-and-white carving, capturing the wizened intensity of his subject through dynamic registration and textural nuance. A rare self-printed woodblock homage to Western Post-Impressionism. 👴🖤🎨

• Year & Edition: 1960 · Self-printed. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil to margins: ゴッホ (Gogh) 眼帯をした老人 (Old Man Wearing an Eye-Patch), 昭和三十五年六月 (June, Showa 35), 奥山儀八郎自摺 (Okuyama Gihachiro jizuri [self-printed]).
• Medium: Woodblock.
• Dimensions: Sheet W: 24.20 cm × H: 38.80 cm; Image W: 20.80 cm × H: 34.80 cm.
• Condition: Beautiful, clean, unblemished, paper crisp & intact..
• Notes: This print is part of Okuyama’s celebrated homage portfolio to European Post-Impressionists—フィンセント・ファン・ゴッホ (Vincent Van Gogh), アンリ・ド・トゥールーズ・ロートレック (Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec), and セザンヌ (Paul Cézanne). Okuyama masterfully translates Van Gogh’s fluid brushwork and rugged textures into the precise carving, registration, and tonal contrast of Japanese woodblock. The original Van Gogh painting “Old Man with an Eye-Patch” is in the collection of the Kröller-Müller Museum.