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| Artist: | Kawano Kaoru (1916-1965) — 河野薫 |
| Title: | Twilight 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: | 39937 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Saturday, 9 December 2006
Large modern Japanese woodblock printed in colors on a porous Japanese paper by Kaoru Kawano (1916 – 1995). Printed in black, a pale green, gray, a silver-colored and a pale blue. The silver pigment is on the right disc and contrasts nicely with the left disc that does not have silver pigment. Numbered, titled, and signed in pencil beneath the image: “45/100 character character (B) TWILIGHT (B) Kaoru Kawano.” Just below his signature is a penciled notation: “Barb” and I have no idea what it signifies (perhaps the owner’s name when having it framed). Also sealed with Kawano’s seal in red at lower left in the image.
DIMENSIONS: Image 15.0 x 22.5 inches; sheet size 18.0 x 23.625 inches.
CONDTION: Very good; it is very slightly light struck although only perceptible when examining the margin near the signature (See picture); mounting tape relics at top back quarter points; otherwise no flaws; not laid down.
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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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