Chinese Lithograph - Wrestling/Fighting Cats - HELP with ID

mjm579

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I won this lithograph at a silent auction at one of my frequented thrift stores. It was $60! I generally wouldn't pay that much for any one thing, but I just LOVED this piece. A friend of mine speaks Chinese and he said it has Chinese characters. It feels more Japanese to me, but I know the styles can often be borrowed.
 

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Interesting purchase. Very thought provoking. I can't make up my mind just what is going on between the two cats. If you find more info on this, please share it with us.
 

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Interesting purchase. Very thought provoking. I can't make up my mind just what is going on between the two cats. If you find more info on this, please share it with us.
Similarly - "can't make up my mind" is why I bought it! Hangs in my bedroom (symbolic?) (LOL)
 

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brings to my mind yin yang.
 

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the Japanese in many cases "borrowed" their style and art from the much older Chinese culture.
 

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It's Chinese because of the stamp at the bottom is in the chinese caligraphy style xiao zhuan 小篆
 

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Welcome Yang Hao!! I suspect we will hitting you up with various questions. Glad you are here!!
 

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how do you know its a lithograph? Is it screened? If not, I would think it's an ink painting. An expert Chinese painter can dash one off like this in a few minutes....well, maybe a few more minutes, but a lot faster than you would imagine.
 

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how do you know its a lithograph? Is it screened? If not, I would think it's an ink painting. An expert Chinese painter can dash one off like this in a few minutes....well, maybe a few more minutes, but a lot faster than you would imagine.

It is numbered though hard to see in this pic.
 

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Just doing a bit of tidying up on some older threads, mainly for the benefit of anyone searching the site for information.

Very nice.

The seal stamp may well be Chinese but the artist was Japanese, or rather Japanese-American. It’s additionally signed in English: “Hideo Date”.

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Hideo Date (January 5, 1907 – January 6, 2005) was a Japanese-born American painter active from the 1930s to the 1980s, known for combining elements of Japanese nihonga with American syncromism. A prominent figure in the pre-World War II Los Angeles art scene, his career was interrupted by the internment of Japanese Americans. Although he continued to paint for decades after the war, Date's work remained largely ignored until he was rediscovered by a younger generation of artists and curators in the 1990s. [Ref: Wikipedia]
 

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