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| Artist: | Kawano Kaoru (1916-1965) — 河野薫 |
| Title: | Moonlight Night |
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| Date of first edition?: | circa 1960-1965 |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Self |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Self |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
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Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Large Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Large Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 45218 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
| There is also a double-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:
Kaoru Kawano (Japanese, 1916-1965) Woodblock Print on paper Signed and Sealed
Up for sale is an original Woodblock Print signed by Kaoru Kawano. It is unframed, but comes with the most exquisite silk mat, ready to be framed. It measures 21.5" by 16" with the mat and 17" by 11 1/4" without. It is in excellent condition. |
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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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