Yukinori Yanagi
Emperor's Seal

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Artist Yukinori YanagiJapanese, born 1959

Printer Maurice SánchezAmerican, born 1945

Print studio Derrière L'Étoile StudiosNew York

Publisher Peter Blum Edition/Blumarts, Inc.New York

CultureJapanese

Titles

Emperor's Seal
from the portfolio Hinomaru

Date1991

Published inNew York City, New York, United States

Printed inNew York City, New York, United States

MediumEmbossing with gold leaf on black wove paper, edition 10/35

DimensionsPlate: 4 1/16 × 4 1/16 in. (10.3 × 10.3 cm)
Sheet: 33 × 24 in. (83.8 × 61 cm)

Credit LineThe Peter Blum Edition Archive, 1980-1994, museum purchase funded by the Alice Pratt Brown Museum Fund

Object number96.42.1

Not on view

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Provenance[Peter Blum Gallery, Blumarts Inc., New York, by 1996]; purchased by MFAH, 1996.
Exhibition History"Yukinori Yanagi: Hinomaru Portfolio," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, April 8–July 13, 2014.

"Singular Multiples: The Peter Blum Edition Archive, 1980-1994," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, April 23–October 15, 2006.

"The Peter Blum Edition Archive, 1981-1994 - Yukinori Yanagi: Hinomaru Portfolio," The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Aug. 20, 2021 - Jan. 2, 2022. [Second Installation/Light-Sensitive Rotation: Kinder Building 207: No Catalog]
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Numbered in graphite, lower left corner: 10/35

Signed and dated in graphite, lower right corner: Yanagi 1991

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