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| Artist: | Kawano Kaoru (1916-1965) — 河野薫 |
| Title: | Dream |
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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): | Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 33327 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Saito Era Japanese Woodblock Child + Flowers by Kaoru Kawano
This is a Japanese Woodblock depicting a Child and Flowers by Kaoru Kawano, a student of Saito. The image is 9 1/4" x 15" and has "14th" penciled in the lower right and has the artist's mark in the upper right, it is also stamped on the back. The print is in excellent condition but is taped to the matting.
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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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