Artist Noboru Sawai
Title Antique Birdcage #82/100
Media etching and wood block on paper
Size 20.5 x 14.5 in. / 52.1 x 36.8 cm.
Sold $160
Estimate $200 - $400
Notes
signed, titled and numbered along bottom; unframed
Reference
from the portfolio Twentieth Anniversary 1959-1979.; published by Gallery Moos Limited, 1979
Provenance
private collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
Noboru Sawai ~ [1931-2016] Canadian
see Songs of Spring - Noboru Sawai 1972-1984, by L.Dompierre, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 1984; A Garden of Delights: 25 Years of Prints by Noboru Sawai, K.Ylitalo, Nickle Arts Museum, 1994; Printmaking in Alberta 1945-1985, by B.Cochran, pg.127; included in Printmaking in B.C. 1883-1983, by N.Tuele, A.G.G.V.; biography in Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.4, pg.7, Westbridge Pub., 2003; listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website