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 ...

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 ...

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.

A massive wave threatens to engulf three fishing boats, its foam crown extending like claws, menacing the rowers below. It’s an epic scene of human struggle and ...

Kendall DeBoer, assistant curator of contemporary art at the MFA, walks through “Boru Sibaso Paet, on the foam of the primordial sea,” Linda Sormin’s interactive mixed-media installation at the ...

The MFA Boston shows how one of the greatest printmakers, from Edo Japan, inspired a tidal wave of followers, from Gauguin to Lichtenstein. By Jason Farago Jason Farago, a critic at large, reviewed ...

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 ...

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 ...