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| Artist: | Kawano Kaoru (1916-1965) — 河野薫 |
| Title: | Unknown- girl with flowers in hair |
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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: | 34720 |
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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 pretty young girl in profile, with jet black hair, a floral headband of daisy like flowers in her hair, against a brown background. It is signed in pencil, "Kaoru Kawano, and has a chop mark in red, lower right. The woodblock measures 11 3/8" x 8 1/4, 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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