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| Artist: | Kawano Kaoru (1916-1965) — 河野薫 |
| Title: | Moonlight Night — 月 |
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| Date of first edition?: | 1960 (prior to) |
| Date of this artwork?: | <1960 (may not be accurate) |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Self |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Self |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
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Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Double Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Double Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 29451 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
Edition size of 200.
Possible dating for this scene from an owner:
My friend and her husband bought two pictures from the artist in about 1959. They knew him at that time in Japan. |
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| Notes (this edition)?: |
| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Title Moonlight Night
limited edition - hand signed
Artist Kaoru Kawano 1916-1965
Signature "Kaoru Kawano" hand signed in pencil on thelower margin
Seal Kaoru
Dated Ca. 1950s
Medium/Technique Woodblock print
Impression very good … (self-carved and self-printed)
Colors very good … silver-mica on the moon
Condition very good … light toning, paper slightly wavy, slightly soiled and creased on the margins, several foxing on the margins.
Edition Size 200
Numbered 19 / 200
Description Sleepy owl and the large half moon.
Note "Self-carved and self-printed, Kaoru Kawano" on a strip of paper and attached on the back.
Width Item 25.6 inches = 65.0 cm
Height Item 18.1 inches = 46.0 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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