Hokusai’s Great Wave is seen as the ultimate emblem of Japanese art and is the most reproduced image on the planet – there’s something comforting about seeing it. Whether I spot a ...

Welcome to one fine show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside New York City, a place ...

"Oh, Hokusai! The Great Wave? I've etched that in glass ... was busy stirring chemicals to make crystal meth in a flat underneath the painting, when something went wrong. The explosion that ...

The Great Wave off the Coast of Kanagawa', c1829-1831, from the series 36 Views of Mount Fuji. Source: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images HOKUSAI, directed by Hajime Hashimoto ...

Two prints of Katsushika Hokusai’s The Great Wave are hitting the auction block next month in New York. The Edo Period ...

This was cheap and popular art, but when printed in such quantities ... pre-industrial England, so Hokusai's 'Great Wave' became - and in the modern imagination has remained - the emblem of ...

Discover story behind the "36 Views of Mt. Fuji" woodprint series; "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" by Hokusai. It is not just a huge wave and Mt. Fuji, the boat caught in the wave have a reason.

Art curators and collectors are buzzing over the discovery of a previously unknown painting believed to be by renowned ukiyo-e woodblock artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). The portrait has ...

Click the FOLLOW button to be the first to know about this artist's upcoming lots, sold lots, exhibitions and articles One of these is a dedicated solo exhibitions: “Hokusai: Waves of Inspiration from ...

Created as disposable art circa 1830 the woodblock print of The Great Wave by 70yearold Katsushika Hokusai has earned acclaim and a place of honor in the art world Scholars and critics discuss the ...

The Great Wave may be one of the most recognisable works of art in the world, and now it's available as a LEGO Art project. LEGO Art Hokusai: The Great Wave enables you to recreate Hokusai's ...

On September 17, Katsushika Hokusai’s The Great Wave headlined Christie’s New York sale of Japanese and Korean art, where it fetched $858,800 against an estimate of $500,000-$700,000.