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| Artist: | Kawano Kaoru (1916-1965) — 河野薫 |
| Title: | Woodpecker B- LE |
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| Date of first edition?: | Not set |
| 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: | 39927 |
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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, 1 December 2006
Japanese woodblock print, huge limited-edition Kaoru Kawano. Measures about 22 x 15 plus full margins. Pencil signed and numbered in an edition of 200. There is extensive use of silver mica in the image, giving the print a shimmery quality when illuminated. On the back of the print, there is an attached tag which says that it was carved and printed by the artist himself. Clean white paper, no condition problems to note. A very rare image, I think; it is one I have never seen before. Titled "Woodpecker B". A wonderfully whimsical print from an artist who is finally receiving the attention and appreciation he has long deserved.
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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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