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Dennis Cockell A Group of Japanese-Style Tattoo Flash, 1975-1976 11)
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3 March 2022, 10:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £3,378.75 inc. premium
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Dennis Cockell
A Group of Japanese-Style Tattoo Flash, 1975-1976
comprising of eleven illustration boards with hand-coloured tattoo designs in ink and colour pencil, for traditional Japanese-style tattoos including some of Dennis' signature designs for dragons, fish, phoenixes, snakes, flowers, tigers, octopi, pin-up girls, eagles, birds and other fantastical creatures, each board signed and dated by the artist in black ink
51 x 40.5cm (20 x 16in) each, (11)
(unframed)
comprising of eleven illustration boards with hand-coloured tattoo designs in ink and colour pencil, for traditional Japanese-style tattoos including some of Dennis' signature designs for dragons, fish, phoenixes, snakes, flowers, tigers, octopi, pin-up girls, eagles, birds and other fantastical creatures, each board signed and dated by the artist in black ink
51 x 40.5cm (20 x 16in) each, (11)
(unframed)
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Provenance
Offered directly by tattooist, tattoo art collector and 'Diamond Jacks' studio owner, Darryl Gates
These designs were mainly executed by Dennis whilst at his tattoo studio 'Exclusive Tattoo' on the Finchley Road, London. He was one of the first in Europe to develop a style in the legacy of the Japanese tattoo masters (also called 'Hori'), he travelled to Japan and the USA to study this art and became friend to the world famous tattooist Don Ed Hardy.


















