Complete set of Hokusai's Mt. Fuji prints to be auctioned in NYC in March

A rare complete set of 46 ukiyo-e woodblock prints by Katsushika Hokusai featuring Mt. Fuji of Japan will go up for sale at Christie's in New York in March.The auction house said it expects the prints in the series titled "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji," made between 1830 and 1833, to fetch a total price "in the millions" of U.S. dollars."The last time a complete set appeared on the market was more than 20 years ago, in 2002," said Takaaki Murakami, the head of Christie's Japanese and Korean art department in New York.Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) was a master Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock p…READ FULL ARTICLE