KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI - Sanka hakuu (Storm below the summit)

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ANDY WARHOL - Rebel Without A Cause (James Dean)

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This market is a duel between two works by two famous artists with very different backgrounds.

 was a 19th century printmaker who created one of the most enduring images in visual art: 

. Andy Warhol was a 20th century American genre-spanning visual artist, most closely associated with the Pop Art movement.

This market resolves to the artwork which the Christies website lists with a higher sale value at the auction. 

, as the print is officially titled, is one of three absolute acknowledged masterpieces in Hokusai’s series of 

... It is perfectly, and quite exceptionally, in adherence with the original concept of Hokusai’s project.

 original 1955 movie billboard, with a bit of a twist. Warhol’s advertisement best reflects the versions of the promotional poster released in Japan with script filling the left side of the composition. While much of his oeuvre focuses on American consumerism, Warhol’s use of the Japanese poster’s aesthetic is a visual reminder of the universality of media consumption and glorification. 