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| Artist: | Kawano Kaoru (1916-1965) — 河野薫 |
| Title: | Red Candle- LE |
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| Date of first edition?: | Not set |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Not Set |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Not Set |
| 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: | 39589 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Friday, 11 August 2006
Title Girl and Red Candle
limited edition - hand signed
Artist Kaoru Kawano 1916-1965
Signature "Kaoru Kawano" signed in pencil on the lower margin
Seal artist's seal
Dated ca. 1950s
Medium/Technique Woodblock print
Impression self carved and self printed
Colors very good
Condition very good … paper toning, lightly soiled.
Edition Size 50
Numbered 14 / 50
Description "Girl and Red Candle".
Note "Self printed, self carved, Kawano Kaoru" printed on a piece of paper and attached on the backside with artist's seal.
Width Item 23.6 inches = 60.0 cm
Height Item 17.7 inches = 45.0 cm |
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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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