Violet Butterfly
Violet Butterfly

© Estate of Yōzō Hamaguchi

Violet Butterfly
Violet Butterfly

Currently not on view

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Violet Butterfly,

1982–89

Hamaguchi Yōzō 浜口陽三, 1909–2000; born Hirogawa, Japan; died Tokyo, Japan
2024-484

Information

Title
Violet Butterfly
Dates

1982–89

Maker
Hamaguchi Yōzō 浜口陽三
Medium
Color mezzotint
Dimensions
plate: 4.9 × 4.9 cm (1 15/16 × 1 15/16 in.) sheet: 34.2 × 30.5 cm (13 7/16 × 12 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Bill and Roberta Stein
Object Number
2024-484
Place Made

Asia, Japan

Signatures
Editioned and signed in graphite, along bottom of image: 17/145 | Hamaguchi
Culture
Japanese
Period
Showa
Type
japanese printmaking styles, mezzotints, prints
Subject
butterflies

From time of their creation, all the works were in the possession of Hamaguchi’s US publisher, Muldoon Elder (b. 1935), of the Vorpal Gallery (NYC and San Francisco)
2001 Purchased by Bill and Roberta Stein from the bankruptcy sale of Muldoon Elder’s estate
2001 − 2024 Collection of Bill and Roberta Stein
December 2024 Gifted to the Princeton University Art Museum by Bill and Roberta Stein

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