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| Artist: | Kawano Kaoru (1916-1965) — 河野薫 |
| Title: | Charge — 突進 |
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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: | 31468 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
| Title is "Tosshin" in Japanese. There is also a double-oban-sized limited edition version of this scene. |
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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:
This is a very nice original 1950's Japanese woodblock print. It depicts a wild-eyed running rooster with Mount Fuji as it's wings in a modern-art style. It is on a very black background woodblocked onto hand-made paper and has heavy bleedthrough en-verso. The subject matter measures 14 1/2" by 9" and the black frame measures 19" by 14" overall. Signed by the artist in the lower left with another stamp on the rear margin and framed by The House Of Frames in Sherman Oaks, Calif.
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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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