$500–$5,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Kitaoka's refined style has a modest but loyal collector base.
"At Sand City Lovers Whisper at Dawn" transforms Kitaoka's recurring imaginary sandy cityscape into an explicitly lyrical, narrative subject: the city's geometric architecture becomes the setting for a private human moment, lovers sharing words as the city wakes around them. The title's romantic specificity contrasts with the composition's formal abstraction, the warm sandy tones of the built environment softened perhaps by the hour of dawn and the intimacy of the scene. It is Kitaoka at his most poetic — the modernist grid inhabited by feeling.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
At Sand City Lovers Whisper at Dawn was created by Fumio Kitaoka (北岡文雄).
At Sand City Lovers Whisper at Dawn depicts urban scenes, shunga, and night scenes.
