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| Artist: | Kawano Kaoru (1916-1965) — 河野薫 |
| Title: | Three Eyes |
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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): | Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 31771 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Friday, 14 October 2005
"Three Eyes"
A very rare woodcut by 'Sosaku Hanga' artist Kaoru Kawano, student of Kiyoshi Saito.
This original woodcut print is bright, unfaded and crisp with excellent colour qualities and detail in black, yellow and grey inks, The image size measuring approximately 10 x 15 ins. Within its period frame size of 19 x 23 ins. With backboard and original dust seal, under glass.
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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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