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| Artist: | Kawano Kaoru (1916-1965) — 河野薫 |
| Title: | Hair, 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: | 34384 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Kaoru Kawano Woodblock HAIR Signed #21/300
At a recent estate sale I bought several woodblock prints by Kaoru Kawano. He died in 1965. He was a self taught Woodblock artist and his work becoming more and more collectible. The large framed and matted print is entitled HAIR. It is signed in pencil on the print and on the back. The back says Self Printed, Self Carved Kaoru Kawano. This has the Kaigado Frames sticker on the back. I have not opened the picture. I see no damage to the print.
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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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