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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: | 33328 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Friday, 13 May 2005
This is a beautiful original woodblock print by the famous Japanese artist Karu Kawano(1916-1965). I do not know the exact title of this work. It was done in the 1950s and it is sealed in its old frame and mat. There is a biography of this artist pasted on the back. The image size is about 14.6"x9.1" in.. I do not know the size of the sheet since it is sealed in its old original frame and mat. The size with the frame is 18"x11.7" in. It is stamped with the artist's red stamp upper right. It is likely pencil signed on the margin below the mat. |
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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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