Posted by Ester Rollins on September 02, 2001 at 23:00:10:
In Reply to: Hokusai with seals or without ? posted by G.Smits on September 02, 2001 at 02:52:23:
I couldn't answer about the authenticity of your prints without seeing them, at least in scans (which can do little more than rule them out actually) but I can say that the presence or absence of seals is no guarantee of authenticity. If the print should have a seal and does not, that is troublesome, and suggests at least a later printing, if not an outright reprint. The presence of a seal guarantees little though, because reprints too had censor seals.
: On the internet I have seen a lot of pictures of Hokusai prints featuring the 24 views of Mt Fuji. Some of them have censor seals and some don't. Because I own 4 Hokusai prints, are the prints with seals authentic or are there prints which are authentic but don't have censor seals ?