Lost Paradise 4
- Date:
- 1972
- Medium:
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
$500–$5,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Kurosaki's bold, colorful prints appeal to collectors of both Japanese and international contemporary art.
"Lost Paradise 4" is a 1972 print by Akira Kurosaki, the fourth entry in a series meditating on themes of exile and irretrievable beauty. The title carries obvious biblical overtones, but filtered through Kurosaki's Japanese modernist sensibility, it takes on additional resonances tied to environmental loss and cultural displacement in postwar Japan. Created during a fertile period of Kurosaki's career, the print employs his method of carving directly into the wood surface to generate compositions that hover between representation and pure form. The paradise referenced is not depicted but rather felt as an absence, a space carved away. As a numbered series work, "Lost Paradise 4" develops ideas explored in earlier entries while pushing toward new formal territory.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Lost Paradise 4 was created by Akira Kurosaki (黒崎彰) in 1972.
Lost Paradise 4 depicts landscapes and abstract.
