Cat and Ball
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- wbp
$500–$5,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Kitaoka's refined style has a modest but loyal collector base.
A cat, eternally self-contained, bats at or contemplates a ball in this small, warm print. Kitaoka brings his characteristic formal economy to domestic subject matter: the cat's body is a study in curved surfaces and watchful stillness, the ball a simple sphere that introduces a note of play. Such intimate subjects appear throughout his oeuvre alongside the grander ambitions of his landscape and travel prints, suggesting an artist at ease moving between the monumental and the quotidian.
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 and Ball was created by Fumio Kitaoka (北岡文雄).
Cat and Ball depicts animals and cats.
