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| Artist: | Kawano Kaoru (1916-1965) — 河野薫 |
| Title: | Woman Holding a Baby |
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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): | Not Set
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| Format (this edition): | Not Set |
| DB artwork code: | 31819 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Kawano, Kaoru- WOMAN HOLDING A BABY- 2.jpg is:
KAORU KAWANO
GIRL WITH BABY/ MADONNA AND CHILD
JAPAN 1916-1955
Original wood block in colors (c. 1955). The image size is 15"x9 1/4" on 11 1/4"x17" heavy rice paper, with margins. Signed by the artist with the chopmark in red in the lower right corner of the image. There is a number in the upper right margin. With the publisher's seal in the lower right corner verso. With the artist's name and title verso in pencil. This is a fine impression in very good condition. There is some faint creasing in the image which may have been produced when the print was being pulled. Also, there are two groups of indentions in the upper right margin and lower right margin.
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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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