$200–$1,500. Common prints: $200–$500. Key value factors: Amano's prints are affordably priced and accessible.
Mask — men or kamen — engages one of the most ancient subjects in Japanese visual culture. Masks in the Japanese tradition range from the sublime Noh masks through the frightening visages of festival demon masks to the grotesque commedia-like forms of Kyogen. Amano's geometric abstract treatment of the mask would reduce its dramatic facial features to their structural essentials: the oval form, the eye openings as geometric voids, the characteristic expressions rendered as compositional rather than psychological elements.
歌舞伎
Woodblock print
1955
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Mask was created by Amano Kunihiro (天野邦弘).
Mask depicts kabuki, mythology, and abstract.
