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| Artist: | Kawano Kaoru (1916-1965) — 河野薫 |
| Title: | Horse pulling sled |
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| Date of first edition?: | Not set |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Self |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Self |
| 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: | 29446 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Saturday, 16 July 2005
Title Sled on the Snow
life time edition
Artist Kaoru Kawano 1916-1965
Signature "Kaoru Kawano" handsigned in pencil in the image
Seal artist's seal (kaoru)
Dated ca. 1950s
Technique/Medium Woodblock print
Impression excellent - very good … (life time printing)
Colors excellent - very good … mica lightly sprinkled on the figures, solid mica on the sky and on the foreground
Condition excellent - very good … slight creases on the margins, mounting residues on the reverse corners.
Description Horse sled on the snow. Strong shadows are casted in the sunny day after the snow.
Format Oban yoko-e
Width 16.7 inches = 42.5 cm
Height 11.2 inches = 28.5 cm |
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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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