Untitled (Ryota)

 

Andrew Stasik

  1932 - PRESENT (biography)

1958  

color intaglio 

4 1/4 x 8 3/4" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

10 of 25  

pencil editioned in lower left; annotated on print folder: "Oh, the wide world's way! / Cherry blossoms left unwatched / even for three days! / Ryota" 

 

heavy, antique-white Arches wove with partial watermark 

published 

Harold G. Henderson; reprinted by permission of Doubleday & Co., Inc. 

20394 

$200.00 

From the portfolio "Prints and Poems", nine intaglio prints by Andrew Stasik illustrating nine Haiku poems, translated by Harold G. Henderson. This poem by Oshima Ryota (1718-1787) reads: ' Oh, the wde world's ways! / Cherry blossoms left unwatched / even for three days! '