$500–$5,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Kitaoka's refined style has a modest but loyal collector base.
The aquarium-like enclosure of a drinking glass allows Kitaoka to create a small, self-contained world: fish floating in suspension, the glass walls concentrating the watery space into a transparent geometric vessel. The subject combines two of Kitaoka's characteristic interests — clear, geometric form and the natural world — in a domestic register. The fish, rendered with his characteristic economy of line, move through the bounded space with the unselfconscious freedom of creatures unaware they are contained.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Fishes in drinking glass was created by Fumio Kitaoka (北岡文雄).
Fishes in drinking glass depicts fish, still life, and animals.
