A Katsushika Hokusai woodblock print sold at Christie’s in New York for $2.8 million on Tuesday. The last time the print came up for auction in 2021, it surpassed its low estimate of $150,000 by ...

A rare print of “The Great Wave off Kanagawa,” one of art history’s most iconic images, fetched a record $2.76 million at a Christie’s auction in New York on Tuesday. The 14.6-inch-wide artwork is now ...

NEW YORK -- One of the most famous of Japan's ukiyo-e woodblock prints has sold for $2.76 million at the Christie's auction house in New York, a record for a print by Katsushika Hokusai.

Created by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) in the early 1830s, the woodblock print (full name: “Under the Wave off Kanagawa”) was a sensation from the moment it was produced as part of ...

A woodblock print of "The Great Wave," an iconic ukiyo-e piece by Edo Period (1603 to 1868) artist Katsushika Hokusai, sold this week for well above the estimate posted by Christie’s auction house, ...

In a sprawling exhibition about the Japanese master painter Katsushika Hokusai, it’s telling to walk into the very first gallery and have to squint to find him at all. At the Museum of Fine Arts, an ...

French Impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840-1926) and Edo-era Japanese printmaker Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) never met and were alive at the same time for only nine years. But sometimes your ...

WORCESTER— A protean creator and master of many styles, a virtuoso of line, a punchy personality — the Japanese artist Hokusai (1760-1849) was in many ways the Picasso of his day. Like Picasso, ...

A rare print of "The Great Wave off Kanagawa," one of art history's most iconic images, fetched a record $2.76 million at a Christie's auction in New York on Tuesday. The 14.6-inch-wide artwork is now ...