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| Artist: | Kawano Kaoru (1916-1965) — 河野薫 |
| Title: | Dancing Figure (Camellia), LE |
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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): | Double Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Double Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 33529 |
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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 lovely original Japanese print noted sosaku hanga printmaker Kawano Kaoru. The print is quite large, about 22 1/2 x 9 1/2 plus margins. It is pencil signed and numbered 14/300; titled "Dancing Figure, Camellia". It is matted in its original mat (one piece of masking tape upper reverse margin, one in the lower reverse margin), but not framed. There are several handling creases, which I couldn't get to show up well in the picture. These likely happened at the time of printing, as the colors used require heavy saturation of the paper, and it is quite a large sheet as well. They will show very little once the print is framed. The color and impression are superb. There is beautiful woodgrain in the background, and metallic inks used liberally. There is a faint mat line well outside the image. |
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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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