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| Artist: | Kawano Kaoru (1916-1965) — 河野薫 |
| Title: | Unknown, sleeping child |
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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): | Chuban
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| Format (this edition): | Chuban |
| DB artwork code: | 33982 |
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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 charming woodblock print by Kaoru Kawano is a profile of a young girl in red ink, with eyes closed, tilted head, and her head resting on her suspended arm. The background is black. It is signed in pencil, "Kaoru Kawano, along the bottom margin, and has a chop mark in red, lower right, as well. The woodblock measures 11 1/4" x 8 3/8, has full margins, in good condition. En verso is stamped "MADE IN JAPAN". The right vertical margin is deckle edged.
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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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