1967, color aquatint, signed in pencil to lower margin: title in Japanese 空の魚 (sora no sakana), 15/30, Denji Noma '67," presented under glass with mat in gilt wood frame.

Frame dimensions 31 1/2 x 24 1/2 in., Sight size 24 x 18 1/4 in.

Property of a Gentleman, Collected in Japan

Very little is found on the life and education of the Japanese printmaker Denji Noma. He was born in Ehime Prefecture, Shikoku, Japan in 1935, the son of artist Hitone Noma. In the 1960s he studied at Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17 workshop in Paris, and from 1964-65 he managed Impressions Workshop, Inc., in Boston, Massachusetts. He briefly taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, likely as a guest teacher, and was a member of the Ichiyokai Print Committee, who announced his passing in May of 2005. His work is held in the collections of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, the Harvard Art Museums, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, among many others.

Very good condition; not examined outside of the frame.