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| Artist: | Kawano Kaoru (1916-1965) — 河野薫 |
| Title: | Sacred Crane (c) — 丹頂鶴（e） |
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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): | Double Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Double Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 36715 |
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| Japanese title is "Tanchou-Zuru" (Japanese crane; red-crowned crane). |
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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:
Fine, Modernist color woodblock print by listed Japanese artist Kaoru Kawano. It is signed in pencil in the bottom margin Kaoro Kawano, Sacred Crane (C) and numbered 149/200. His chop mark and signature also appears in the image, lower left. The design and colors are superb, with flecks of a metallic silver color appearing in the birds bodies when viewed in certain lights. It measures about 11 1/2" x 24" and is framed in a black wood frame under glass. The whole frame is then mounted to a HEAVY plywood board which has been covered in a brown burlap. There is a framing sticker on the back from A H Herman & Son in Chicago, Ill with no zip code (pre-dates 1965). The whole framing effect is rather nice and gives it an Asian look, to my eye. Also on the back there is a little paper from the artist that says: Self-carved, Self-printed, Kaoru Kawano.
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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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