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| Artist: | Kawano Kaoru (1916-1965) — 河野薫 |
| Title: | Canary |
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| Date of first edition?: | circa 1950-1970 |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Self |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Self |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
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Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Postcard
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| Format (this edition): | Postcard |
| DB artwork code: | 34448 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
| Title of the original limited-edition strike is "Young Girl (Yellow Canary)". |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Monday, 2 January 2006
This is a wonderful small vintage signed woodblock painting by listed artist Kaoru Kawan, CANARY.Charming mod depiction of a young gal with a canary bird resting on her knee.The woodblock is about 7 inches tall by four and a half inches wide.I purchased it years ago at a military related estate sale.Altough not expert, I believe it is original as I can see and feel the paint or ink and I had purchased others by the same artist at that sale (which I have since sold and which were original).Due to the small size, and the fact that it is folded over I suspect it may be a card. |
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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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