Copy of Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ print makes £300,000 at Dreweatts
A hammer price of £300,000 sounds like a pretty hefty sum for any print sold in the UK regions. But when it comes to the legendary Katsushika Hokusai’s (1760-1849) ‘Great Wave’, it’s actually a relatively middling amount.
Under the well of the Great Wave off Kanagawa, to give the famous woodblock print its full title, fi…