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| Artist: | Kawano Kaoru (1916-1965) — 河野薫 |
| Title: | Moonlight Night |
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| Date of first edition?: | circa 1960-1965 |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Self |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Not Set |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
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Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Large Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Not Set |
| DB artwork code: | 31450 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
| There is also a double-oban sized version of this scene. |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
This is a very nice, vintage Japanese Woodblock print depicting an owl. Nice contrast with black, white, yellow and grey! The woodblock is double signed....once in the print and also in pencil by the artist, Kaoru Kawano. He is a listed artist who was born in 1916. Professionally framed and measures about 13.5 by 18.5 inches.
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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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