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| Artist: | Kawano Kaoru (1916-1965) — 河野薫 |
| Title: | Sacred Crane C |
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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: | 33492 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Very nicely done woodblock from noted Japanese artist Kaoru Kawano, (1916-1965). Great image of cranes in embrace, and use of plywood wood grain surface for the background, with wonderful texture, color, shape, and balance to complete the image. Nicely signed in pencil below seal mark in bottom left corner, as shown. Stamped on back, bottom right corner is: Made In Japan, next to the artist's name printed in blue ink, as shown. Entire print measures 11 1/4" x 17", with the image area measuring 9 1/4" x 15". Very Good condition with slight toning and yellowing on margin from age. There is also a glue residue line that is present around the entire face of the margin. This was probably caused by the print being matted and lightly glued face down at one time. At no time does this glue residue line extent into the image area, and will not be seen if this is matted in the future.
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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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