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20402 Click for more photos | Japan 1894-95 Sino-Japanese Ukiyo-e original multicolour woodblock print triptych, 'The Japanese Navy Sinks Chinese Cruiser Zhiyuan in the Yellow Sea', Oct 1894 by Kaboyashi Kiyochika (1847-1915). As John W Dower from MIT (Massachusettes Institute of Technology) Visualizing Cultures put it: 'Kiyochika let his imagination run wild. His subject was the Cruiser Zhiyuan (detailed information from Wikipedia provided) which sank near the mouth of the Yalu (Yellow) River. Where most prints imagined the Japanese annihilating their opponents on choppy seas, Kiyochika's doomed vessel is already under water, plunging to the bottom with tiny drowned figures floating, suspended in the brine. Standing in almost giddy contrast to this is a startling depiction of sailors cheering the sinking of a Chinese warship on the deck of their small torpedo boat amid turbulent waves, they are already drinking in celebration and obviously sloshed in more ways than one'. 'Tiny rag-doll-like Chinese drown in the sea as a Chinese ship plunges to the bottom. A typical example of the almost reflexive dehumanization of the enemy found in many of the war prints'. This is a very rare perspective (35.3x70.4cm). One print found in Saint Louis Art Museum collection object # 192:2010a-c. A similar woodblock was sold by Christie's for US$2640 (A$4034, est U$1000-1500), sales record attached. | AVAILABLE at A$800 | ||
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