Genshoku ukiyo-e dai hyakka jiten 5 (1980)
Hasui's prints continue to influence artists and fascinate collectors for their ability to evoke a nostalgic and timeless Japan
This collaboration was crucial: under Watanabe's direction
with untrimmed margins all around
The print run without the gold leaf is 250 copies
JR, The ballerina jumping in containers, Le Havre, France, 2014 sculture Genshoku ukiyo-e dai hyakka jitenPerfect impression, printed on Voirin and Marinoni flatbed machines in a total of 250 copies on White paper BFK Rives 250 grams from Idem Paris. Perfect preservation, uncut margins. Dry stamp of the artist in the lower right and of the printer in the lower left. In July 2014, JR completes the project Women are Heroes at the port of Le Havre. He pastes the eyes of a woman on Le Magellan, a 363 meter long container ship, for a journey around the world.