Key value factors: For living or recently deceased artists, limited edition size and gallery representation drive value. Signed and numbered prints from smaller editions are most desirable.
This 1987 woodblock print, catalog number 965 in an edition of 40 (impression 36 of 40), extends Funasaka's numbered series further into the late 1980s. The nine-number gap between this work and catalog 956 from the same year provides a measure of Funasaka's working pace, producing roughly one new geometric composition every few weeks. Impression 36 of 40 places this near the end of its edition, where the accumulated history of thirty-five previous printings may have slightly softened the blocks' carved edges, introducing the faintest organic warmth into the geometric precision. Funasaka's prints from this period represent the mature refinement of an artistic language developed over a quarter century of sustained practice, in which the numbered sequence itself becomes a kind of abstract autobiography recorded in geometric form.
965 (ed. 36/40) was created by Yoshisuke Funasaka (舩坂芳助) in 1987.
965 (ed. 36/40) depicts abstract.
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