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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: | 33493 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Title Two Cranes
Artist Kaoru Kawano 1916-1965 - click for artist
Signature Kaoru Kawano signed in pencil in the image
Seal artist's seal
Technique/Medium Woodblock print
Impression excellent - very good … (Unlimited Edition)
Colors excellent - very good … mica, silver colored metallic pigment
Condition excellent - very good
Description Two cranes on the green background
Note The outer edges of the margins are not shown due to the scanner area limitation. Signature is hard to see but it is written on the lower left area of the image.
Width 11.4 inches = 29.0 cm
Height 17.1 inches = 43.5 cm |
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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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