Hokusai's rare Mt. Fuji collection sold for $3.6 mil. at N.Y. auction

A rare complete set of 46 woodblock prints signed by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai sold Tuesday in a live auction for $3.56 million at Christie's in New York.Produced in the early 1830s, the original "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji" set depicting the mountain from various locales including Edo, present-day Tokyo, gained popularity at the time, leading to the creation of 10 more works for the series.The prints were collected individually over a decade by Jitendra Singh, a professor emeritus of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, according to Edw…READ FULL ARTICLE