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| Artist: | Kawano Kaoru (1916-1965) — 河野薫 |
| Title: | May |
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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: | 33451 |
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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 KAORU KAWANO woodblock print with a young girl with what looks like wheat stalks and a full moon or sun. The colors are brown, yellow, black and white. The print is in a beautiful wood frame, matted, under glass and sealed in the back. It is pencil signed by the artist and there is also a red artists chop mark. The frame measures 22-3/4" by 18-1/2". The print is in excellent condition with no foxing or toning. |
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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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