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| Artist: | Kawano Kaoru (1916-1965) — 河野薫 |
| Title: | Long Necks |
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| Date of first edition?: | 1950 (in the decade of) |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Self |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Self |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
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Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Large Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Large Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 36467 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
There is also a double-oban-sized limited edition version of this scene.
Title is taken from the limited edition version. |
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| Notes (this edition)?: |
| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Hello again Ross,
Sorry it's taken so long to get back to you - I had a lot of trouble transferring images from my camera to the computer but all appears to be well now.
Anyway, the print appears to be one of those "posthumous" ones with no signature and the red stamp. It is one of three that we bought in a Singapore gallery back in 1982 and they all have pride-of-place in our home. Probably of the three, this would be my favourite.
Sorry, forgot to give you the dimensions. The printed image is 250 x 380mm.
I hope that it is of some interest to you.
Best regards,
Brad Jones
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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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