- Lecturer: Chris Uhlenbeck (Curator,Japan Museum SieboldHuis; Print dealer)
- Date: Wednesday, January 11, 2017, 7:00-8:30 pm
- Venue: Kabayama-Matsumoto Room, International House of Japan
- Language: English (without Japanese interpretation)
- Admission: 2,000 yen (1,500 yen for IHJ members and students; Free for guests staying at I-House on January 10 or 11)
Please pay in cash at the reception. - Seating: 80 (reservations required)
Only then is one able to determine whether a print is the real thing. Having established that it is real, the true problems start: how does one determine if the quality is good? Is it faded, trimmed, foxed, a poor impression? All these questions need answering before deciding to pull the yen, dollars or euros from your pocket.
In this presentation I will not use PowerPoint but rather I will bring examples of good and bad, for the audience to handle and inspect. If time allows, I will add a few words about conservation and mention sources for enhancing one’s knowledge and expertise in the area of Japanese print collecting.
Chris Uhlenbeck
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Currently, combining the role of curator with his print dealership, he is working at the Japan Museum SieboldHuis in Leiden, the Netherlands. He travels to Japan three to four times a year to visit his clients, auctions, museums and colleagues.
Mr. Uhlenbeck published his first book on Japanese art, on 19th-century Japanese photography, in 1992. Since then he has published numerous books and catalogs including Ukiyo-E: The Art of Japanese Woodblock Prints (with Amy Newland,1999), Mount Fuji: Sacred Mountain of Japan (with Merel Molenaar, 2000), Printed To Perfection: Twentieth-Century Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection (with Joan B. Mirviss and others, 2004), Japanese Erotic Fantasies: Sexual Imagery of the Edo Period (with Margarita Winkel and others, 2005), Hiroshige, Shaping the Image of Japan (with Marije Jansenin, 2009), Yoshitoshi: Masterpieces from the Ed Freis Collection (with Amy Reigle Newland,2011), and Waves of Renewal: Modern Japanese Prints 1900-1960 (with Amy Reigle Newland and Maureen de Vries, 2015).