Unknown- still life
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
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.
A still life of unidentified objects — the "unknown" designation acknowledging that the specific subjects cannot be confirmed — is rendered with Kitaoka's typical attention to form and arrangement. Still life was a recurring subject throughout his career, each object reduced to its essential silhouette and color, the arrangement creating a compositional logic independent of the objects' practical identities. Even without knowing the specific objects, the formal qualities of the print — the relationships between shapes, the color relationships, the compositional balance — communicate through pure visual means.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Unknown- still life was created by Fumio Kitaoka (北岡文雄).
Unknown- still life depicts still life.
