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| Artist: | Kawano Kaoru (1916-1965) — 河野薫 |
| Title: | Sacred Lake — 丹頂 |
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| Date of first edition?: | 1950 (in the decade of) |
| 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: | 46027 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
Japanese title is "Tanchou" (Japanese crane; red-crowned crane).
Edition size of 200.
There is also a large-oban-sized open edition. |
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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:
This is an original framed print by the Japanese artist Kaoru Kawano (1916-1965) who has earned an outstanding reputation for his woodblock prints.
The name of this piece is titled "Sacred Lake".
Dates from the 1950's and is signed by the artist on the lower edge in pencil.
This is a rare limited numbered edition and is number 147 of 200.
The print is in a high quality wood-backed frame with glare reducing glass, gray cloth border and gold color accents. The frame is about 3/4" thick.
This print is from my personal collection, and has been stored safely for many years. It was removed from the frame for photos and inspection only.
Print measures about 23"x10" unframed and 30"x16.5" with frame.
Condition is very good on both the print and frame, bold colors with chop-mark. |
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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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