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I picked up a masterpiece (IMO) the brushwork appears to be done with a brush of a single hair and there are seemingly millions of precise tiny strokes in this painting of two birds with flowers in the background.

I do not know if anything will be legible at the small file size of 100 KB on the photo (?)s. Please feel free to email me for a better resolution image...

Thanks for your help!

I thought that since I have had no responses, it could be helpful to those trying to identity the artist if I showed the entire picture and not just the chop... (?)

Sorry6, for the quality of the pix...

John

Your closeup of characters show this is machine printed, not original painting. When machine print black ink was a little out of registration (should have been directly over red so no red shadow show). Could have been hundreds or thousands printed same time.

Good luck,
Cal

the name the artist is using is comprised of the third and second characters from the end of the inscription. the seal contains them as well. unfortunately my japanese is not good enough to give you a correct reading. thanks for posting a photo of the picture itself.

Thanks for the replies!

I photoshopped the closeup of the signature and altered it considerably, but there have been clever fakes created over the years. I guess I got sucked in by the damage to the print - which I assumed was age related and an expensive reframing that happened 40 years ago.

When photoreproduction technology available, myriad enterprises made/sold printed versions of paintings.

These not 'fakes' since they not use handpainting technique to imitate original. Are just mass-made prints.

Damage occur over time, you would not be first or last to think damage mean old or antique.

You might find information about original by internet search for quail and millet.

Good luck,
Cal

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