Key value factors: For living or recently deceased artists, limited edition size and gallery representation drive value. Signed and numbered prints from smaller editions are most desirable.
Water 74 I-U.B.F., a 2012 ink and color woodblock, shares its number with Tree 74 I., creating a parallel between Yoshida's two major nature-based series. Where the tree print works in monochrome ink, this water study adds color, reflecting the different visual qualities of its subject. Water refracts and reflects light in ways that demand color to represent accurately, even in the simplified vocabulary of woodblock printing. The I-U.B.F. suffix records the technical specifics of this impression, adding it to the growing archive of approaches Yoshida has tested in her ongoing study of water through mokuhanga.
Nikko Chuzenjiko
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Color woodblock print; oban
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Niigata Gosaibori
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Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Water 74 I-U.B.F. was created by Ayomi Yoshida (吉田亜世美) in 2012.
Water 74 I-U.B.F. depicts rivers & lakes and abstract.
Water 74 I-U.B.F. measures 79.5 × 79.9 cm.
