HOKUSAI

A year after Christie’s hammered a record $2.75 million for a print of Hukosai’s Great Wave off Kanagawa, the same auctioneer is putting Hokusai in the spotlight of its spring sales with an exceptional set of Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji to be sold on 19 March during Asia Week in New York. HOKUSAI’s Great […]

“When I’m a hundred years old, I’ll draw a line and that will be life.” (Katsushika Hokusai) HOKUSAI died at the age of 89, unable to achieve his goal of tracing life itself by drawing a line. The “Crazy Old Drawer” – as he often described himself – left behind a prolific œuvre of 30,000 […]

A few days before the opening of the exhibition Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (March 26-July 16, 2023), one of the finest known proofs of Hokusai’s Great Wave off Kanagawa revised the artist’s auction record by fetching $2.76 million at Christie’s during Asian Week (vs. an estimate of $500,000 […]