Galloping Horses
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
$500–$5,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Kitaoka's refined style has a modest but loyal collector base.
Horses in full gallop are among the oldest subjects in world art, and Kitaoka brings a sosaku-hanga sensibility to the motif: the animals are carved with slashing, energetic lines that carry the velocity of the print knife itself. The bodies tilt and overlap in a compressed frieze of motion, manes streaming, hooves barely suggested below churning mass. Kitaoka's training in both Japanese and Western modernist traditions allows him to reference the gestural immediacy of German Expressionism while remaining grounded in the woodblock's inherent directness.
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.
Galloping Horses was created by Fumio Kitaoka (北岡文雄).
Galloping Horses depicts landscapes and animals.
