Gihachiro Okuyama’s 1957 woodblock print 「アンリ・ド・トゥールーズ・ロートレックの『髪を梳く女』」 (Lautrec - "Woman Combing Her Hair") delicately renders a moment of private elegance, translating Toulouse-Lautrec’s lithograph into the layered colour and precise registration of Japanese carving. A rare self-printed homage to Post-Impressionist intimacy. 💇🌸🖌️
- Year & Edition: 1957 · Self-printed (奥山儀八郎自摺 )(Okuyama Gihachiro jizuri); signed, titled & dated in pencil to margins: ロートレック (Lautrec), 髪を梳く女 (Woman Combing Her Hair), 昭和三十二年三月 (March, Showa 32).
- Medium: Woodblock.
- Dimensions: Sheet W: 26.70 cm × H: 39.60 cm; Image W: 24.00 cm × H: 34.00 cm.
- Condition: Lovely considering age. Image unblemished. Tape residue verso, faint browning outer margin edge.
- Notes: Gihachiro Okuyama’s “Woman Combing Her Hair (髪を梳く女)” is a magnificent homage to French Post-Impressionist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. This rare woodblock print, based on Lautrec’s 1896 piece from his "Elles" lithography series - a portfolio focused on the lives of women in Parisian brothels - captures a moment of daily intimacy as a woman arranges her hair. Okuyama published a remarkable portfolio of woodblock prints in homage to original works by Post-Impressionists Vincent Van Gogh (フィンセント・ファン・ゴッホ), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (アンリ・ド・トゥールーズ・ロートレック), and Paul Cézanne (セザンヌ). Highly collectable, it truly is remarkable how Okuyama has meticulously captured the fine details, fluid brushstrokes & textures of these Post-Impressionist masters within the precise intricacy, registration, & colour block work of traditional Japanese woodblock printing.
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