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| Artist: | Kawano Kaoru (1916-1965) — 河野薫 |
| Title: | Woodpecker |
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| Date of first edition?: | Not set |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Not Set |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Not Set |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
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Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 29253 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
At a recent estate sale I bought several Kaoru Kawano Woodblock prints. He was a Japanese Woodblock Artist self taught. He spent time in a Siberian Prison Camp during the war. He passed away in 1963. This print is approx 11 by 16". Good bleed through of paint as shown in the pictures. It is unframed and signed in pencil and has the artist red stamp. This one is of a girl and two birds. I don't see any rubs or scrapes to the body of the print. The edges are a bit wrinkled. I'm sure with proper framing and matting this will not make a difference. |
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| Artist Bio: |
Kaoru Kawano was a very popular artist, known for his distinctively styled depictions of figures, especially children. He uses the woodgrain patterns to render the textures and the mood to his works.
Double-oban-sized prints are almost always limited-edition lifetime strikes that are pencil-signed, editioned, and titled by Kawano himself. There are rare later editions that have stencilled titles, which I believe are posthumous strikes.
Large-oban-sized scenes with a pencil-signed signature (usually within the printed area) will be lifetime editions signed by the artist, while unsigned prints with a black round seal on the verso will be posthumous strikes.
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