OHARA KOSON / SHOSON (1877-1945) MEIJI OR TAISHO,20TH CENTURY Two Japanese woodblock prints depicting monkeys, the first with one suspended from a tree holding its young, the smaller primate reaching toward the reflection of the moon in a pool of water below; the other with two monkeys and a butterfly, the first signed Koson, the second Shoson, and with a red seal mark, both otanzaku ban, 34.5cm x 18.5cm and 37.5cm x 16.5cm respectively. (2) Provenance: from the private collection of a British artist, formed in the 1990s.