Portrait of the novelist A. Nagayo
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
Typical Price
$500–$5,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Kitaoka's refined style has a modest but loyal collector base.
$500–$5,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Kitaoka's refined style has a modest but loyal collector base.
Nagayo Yoshiro (here identified as "A. Nagayo") was among the distinguished Japanese writers of the interwar period, and this woodblock portrait — distinct from but related to the more formal "sensei zo" portrait — renders him in a more intimate register. Kitaoka's approach to the portrait of an admired literary figure reflects the traditional Japanese artist-writer alliance, the printmaker offering his likeness as both tribute and interpretation. The novelist's face becomes a compositional problem resolved through the woodblock's particular logic of simplified form.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Portrait of the novelist A. Nagayo was created by Fumio Kitaoka (北岡文雄).
Portrait of the novelist A. Nagayo depicts portraits.
