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From Art Alba Gallery

  1. Athens Bar by John D. Callow, Image 5.

    John D. Callow

    Athens Bar, 2005

    Photograph

    61 x 61 cm

  2. Nude IX by Mark Eshbaugh, Image 4.

    Mark Eshbaugh

    Nude IX, 2004

    Gum Bichromate

    26 x 21 cm

    US$800

  3. Celtic Maiden by John Bellany, Image 1.

    John Bellany

    Celtic Maiden, 2000

    Screenprint

    47 x 39 cm

    US$1,250

  4. Self Portrait by Stephen Conroy, Image 5.

    Stephen Conroy

    Self Portrait, 1999

    Lithograph

    56 x 38 cm

    US$3,000

  5. Denali by Robert Werling, Image 4.

    Robert Werling

    Denali, 1981

    Gelatin Silver Print

    41 x 51 cm

    US$2,000

  6. Found Objects by Patrick Caulfield, Image 1.

    Patrick Caulfield

    Found Objects, 1968

    Screenprint

    72 x 94 cm

    US$5,000

  7. Morning Rush 1959 by Chang Kwok Tong, Image 3.

    Chang Kwok Tong

    Morning Rush 1959, 1959

    Photograph

    26 x 19 cm

    US$500

  8. China Cove, Point Lobos by Edward Weston, Image 4.

    Edward Weston

    China Cove, Point Lobos, 1940

    Platinum

    35 x 28 cm

    US$25,000

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About the artist

Benji Asada

Japanese

1899–1984

Print artist. Asada was an adopted name; his original family name was Nakanishi. He was born in Kameoka, near Kyoto, and received his artistic education at the Kyoto Shiritsu Bijutsu Kogei Gakko (Kyoto City School of Fine Arts and Crafts) and the Kyoto Shiritsu Kaiga Senmon Daigaku (Kyoto City Specialist School of Painting) from which he graduated in 1924. In 1921 he first exhibited at the Teiten (Imperial Exhibition). He got to know the leaders of the 'Sosaku Hanga' movement and published in the magazine 'Han' (Prints, 1928-9), together with his fellow Kyoto artist Tokuriki Tomiki-chiro (q.v.). At the same period he began to study native-style painting under the Kyoto artist Nishimura Goun (1887-1938). He was a co-founder in 1929 of the Kyoto Creative Print Society with Tokuriki, Asano Takeji (b.1900) and others. With these two he designed the series 'Creative Prints of the Twelve Months in new Kyoto' (1930), a Kyoto answer to the Tokyo-dominated 'Sosaku Hanga' world. He became a member of the Japanese Print Society in 1932 and participated in 'One Hundred New Views of Japan' (1987, 0316, 0459). After 1945 he worked only as a painter in the 'Nihonga' style, much influenced by the work of Yamaguchi Kayo (1899-1984), a fellow-pupil of Goun's and specialising in 'kacho' (bird-and-flower) subjects.