$500–$4,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Fujita's contemplative prints appeal to collectors of contemporary Japanese printmaking.
Grove — hayashi or kobayashi — is one of Fujita's most characteristic subject types: a stand of trees at the scale between single specimens and full forest, where the individual trunks remain legible as forms within a collective mass. The grove's specific scale allows Fujita to balance individual vertical forms against the pattern they create together, the negative spaces between trunks as compositionally important as the trunks themselves. This subject recurs across his career in multiple variations and media.
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.
Grove was created by Fumio Fujita (藤田不美夫).
Grove depicts landscapes, trees, and abstract.
