Cat- Kitten
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Key value factors: As self-carved and self-printed works, sosaku-hanga value is tied to the artist's reputation and edition size. Larger formats, earlier editions, and historically significant works command the highest prices.
A kitten composition by Aoyama Masaharu — one of his several feline subjects, demonstrating the same attentive observation of animal behavior and form that characterizes his celebrated bird paintings. The kitten, with its combination of rounded, compact body, alert curiosity, and playful energy, presents a different compositional challenge from the more static dignity of Aoyama's owl and bird subjects — the kitten's characteristic postures and movements requiring the printmaker to capture a moment of potential energy, a body poised between stillness and action. His carving technique, praised for its exceptional precision, serves the soft contours of the kitten's form with skill.
Hebizukai
1932
Color woodblock print; oban
1935
Color woodblock print; oban
1964
Acrylic paint and oil pastel with oiled charcoal and ink over an ink and graphite underdrawing on paper
1964
Color lithograph with relief block and hand coloring; edition 35/36
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Cat- Kitten was created by Aoyama Masaharu (青山正治).
Cat- Kitten depicts animals and cats.
