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| Artist: | Kawano Kaoru (1916-1965) — 河野薫 |
| Title: | Small Birds — 小鳥 |
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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): | Not Set
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| Format (this edition): | Not Set |
| DB artwork code: | 31372 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Up for auction is this rare and original woodblock print of a lovely girl with birds by well known Japanese artist Kawano Kaoru. (1916-1965); Signed in pencil and chop stamped with the artist seal. near bottom left side. He is listed in many art reference books and is also listed in the Davenports art price guide. This is a really nice example of his work. It is in VERY GOOD+ to FINE condition.. Measures a large 11 3/8 inches by 16 3/4 inches... There is a light glue residue line that is present around the entire back face of the margin. This was probably caused by the print being matted and lightly glued face down at one time. At no time does this glue residue line extent into the image area
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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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