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| Artist: | Kawano Kaoru (1916-1965) — 河野薫 |
| Title: | Sacred Crane E- LE — 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: | 37077 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Fine and large Japanese woodblock print on a fibrous white wove paper by Kaoru Kawano (1916-1965). Very nicely printed with silvery ink used for the body areas of the cranes (with two blocks; one for the stripes and one for the spots). Numbered, titled, and signed in pencil beneath the image: 33/200 [Japanese characters] SACRED CRANE (E) KAORU KAWANO. It is glued to a white stiff mat board.
DIMENSIONS: Image 22.375 x 9.5 inches; sheet size 23.875 x 11.75 inches; backing mat 24.5 x 11.75 inches.
CONDITION: Good; glued to a backing mat; smudge in margin (only) at lower left, appears ever so slightly light stained (see pictures) but only discernable in the margins.
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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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