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| Artist: | Kawano Kaoru (1916-1965) — 河野薫 |
| Title: | Conversation — 話 |
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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: | 37416 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
Entitled in the bottom margin in pencil "話" in Japanese and "Conversation" in English. The edition size is 100 prints.
There is also a large-oban-sized version of this scene. |
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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:
Sunday, 18 January 2009
Original Large Color Woodblock by Japanese artist, Kaoru Kawano (1916-1965).
Signed in pencil lower right: Kaoru Kawano
Titled: Conversation.
Small edition of 50. Numbered 7/50.
Original label on verso "Self-Carved, Self-Printed. Kaoru Kwano.
Unframed.
Approx. size of image: 22.75 in by 16 in. (57 cm by 41 cm)
Approx. overall size full margins: 24 in by 18 in. (61 cm by 46 cm)
In overall good condition. See images below of front and back. |
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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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