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| Artist: | Kawano Kaoru (1916-1965) — 河野薫 |
| Title: | Hagoromo A |
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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): | Koban
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| Format (this edition): | Koban |
| DB artwork code: | 41094 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
| Note: the depicted character is a "Hiten" (the Japanese title), celestial maidens that fly around and worship Buddhist gods. The English title "Hagoromo" refers to the magical feather-mantle of a tennin (an aerial spirit or celestial dancer). |
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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:
Thursday, 13 December 2007
Thanks for your time. This auction is for a Christmas card woodblock print, pencil signed by KAWANO, Kaoru (1916-1965) with an impressed seal. Frame approx. 12.75" X 8.75", sight size approx. 7.25" X 4", unfolded approx. 7.25" X 8". The large file pictures are considered part of the description, and they provide a good condition report.
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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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