Asura, Stone Buddha at Yungang Caves, Datong, China

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Asura, Stone Buddha at Yungang Caves, Datong, China

大同雲崗石仏　阿修羅

Hiratsuka Un'ichi (Japanese, 1895–1997)

Japanese

Shôwa era

1950 (Shôwa 25)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink on paper

Dimensions 48.4 x 35.9 cm (19 1/16 x 14 1/8 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Robert Treat Paine, Jr. through Mrs. Robert Treat Paine, Jr.

Accession Number65.1106

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Contemporary Art, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionDate according to a 1965 letter from Keiko Hiratsuka Moore to Robert Paine.

Signed Hiratsuka Un'ichi (in Japanese, in block in left margin)
平塚運一

Marks Artist's seal: Hiratsuka Un'ichi

ProvenanceBy 1965, Robert Treat Paine, Jr. (b. 1900 - d. 1965), Cambridge, MA: 1965, by inheritance to his wife, Barbara Birkhoff Paine (b. 1909 - d. 1995), Cambridge, MA; 1965, gift of Mrs. Paine to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 22, 1965)