Peonies and Butterfly
Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1833–34
$90
Print check at 12 x 8 in: 212 dpi, excellent. Trimmed 3.2% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $24.80 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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A butterfly beats upwind over peonies in full blow — the blossoms bend hard on their stalks, petals and leaves streaming in the same gust. Hokusai in his seventies, in the same years as the Fuji series, turned to flowers and gave them weather — these are not botanical studies but events. The butterfly flies against the wind that bends the flowers — one small will set against the whole current of the sheet. "The wind is one. What lives in it answers differently."
- Maker
- Katsushika Hokusai
- Date
- c. 1833–34
- Medium of the original
- Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00373
| Picture | 12 x 8 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 13.6 x 9.6 in |
| Depth | 0.9 in (22 mm) |
| Weight | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]] |
| Hanging | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]] |
| Material | Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing |
| Made in | Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi |
Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 x 8 in | 212 | Excellent | Trimmed 3.2% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 10 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 14 x 11 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | 146 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 12 in | 141 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 24 x 16 in | 106 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 18 in | 97 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 20 in | 84 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | 70 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 30 in | 58 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 48 x 36 in | 48 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 60 x 40 in | 42 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 2,544 x 1,752 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 33, lights 233 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 8.45
Shipping for this piece to a US address is $24.80, the print room’s own rate, charged per piece. Checkout shows the total before you pay.
Every piece is printed after you order it, in Charlotte, North Carolina, and ships from there. For now we ship to US addresses only.
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