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| Artist: | Kawano Kaoru (1916-1965) — 河野薫 |
| Title: | Buddha and Bird — 鳥と？ |
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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): | Double Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Double Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 47432 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
| Large edition size of 300 suggests this scene was published toward the end of Kawano's life. Given the rarity of this scene (the first example I have ever seen as of 2019), and given the very low edition number of 9/300, I assume this scene was never completed before Kawano fell ill. |
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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:
Original, over size Japanese woodblock print by Kawano Kaoru (1916-1965) titled Buddha and Bird.
Double oban size, limited edition, 9 of 300 exambles, red seal, signed and titled in Japnese and English, mica pigment printed on the bird.
Kawano Kaoru was a Hokkaido born artist and part of the modernist Showa print movement.
Sheet size 23.5 x 17.75 inches
Image size 22 x 14.75 inches
Very good condition, 2 tape remnants at top (see image) |
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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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