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| Artist: | Kawano Kaoru (1916-1965) — 河野薫 |
| Title: | Buddha with Flower |
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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: | 34594 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Mr. Kawano pencil signed this print in the margin as well as in the print (along with his red chop seal). This is a limited edition, 9/300, titled in Japanese, as well as being titled in English 'Buddha with Flower'. This large woodblock is in very good condition, has superb metallic inks throughout and bears the artists original label verso with the original red seal along the seam where it is tipped to the back of the print. This print measures 23 1/2" high by 18" wide. Thanks for looking at this print, please email all questions before bidding on this 'no reserve' auction. Just a note: A very nice fellow eBayer emailed me to let me know an interesting fact about this particular Kawano print. This print "Buddha with Flower" was, in fact, Kaoru Kawano's last limited edition print done just before his death.
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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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