$500–$5,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Kitaoka's refined style has a modest but loyal collector base.
A family in motion — adults and children carrying their possessions, leaving one place for another — appears in this print whose title suggests departure and dispersal. The subject resonates with Kitaoka's own experience of repatriation but may also reflect the broader postwar displacement of millions across Asia. The figures are rendered with the simplified, urgent line of his early figurative work: bodies weighted by loads, children held close, the group moving together with the collective purposefulness of people who have no choice but to go.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Departure of a Family was created by Fumio Kitaoka (北岡文雄).
Departure of a Family depicts figures, daily life, and travel scenes.
