Unknown- WHITE-BARKED TREES
- 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.
White-barked trees — birch, aspen, or perhaps the paper birch known in Japan as shirakaba — form the subject of this untitled print, the pale trunks rising through the composition with the vertical energy that made tree-trunk studies so central to Kitaoka's practice. The white bark reflects light differently from the surrounding forest, creating a natural luminosity that the woodblock medium can render through careful choice of ink density and the reserved (unprinted) white of the paper itself.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Unknown- WHITE-BARKED TREES was created by Fumio Kitaoka (北岡文雄).
Unknown- WHITE-BARKED TREES depicts trees.
