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 1976 color woodblock and screenprint combines two printing techniques to achieve effects neither could produce alone. The title "Lemon No. 468" introduces a still-life subject into Funasaka's otherwise predominantly spatial and geometric practice, with the lemon providing an organic form that contrasts with the angular planes of his typical compositions. The hybrid medium of woodblock and screenprint allows Funasaka to layer the warm, textured surface of woodblock printing with the flat, even color fields achievable through screenprinting. Edition 20 of 50 impressions places this near the middle of the print run. The catalog number 468 positions it within the mid-1970s phase of Funasaka's sequential output. The lemon, as subject, introduces color (yellow) with unavoidable specificity, grounding the otherwise abstract formal exercise in the sensory reality of a common fruit.
Lemon No. 468 was created by Yoshisuke Funasaka (舩坂芳助) in 1976.
Lemon No. 468 uses Stencil Print, on color woodblock and screenprint on paper; edition 20/50.
Lemon No. 468 depicts still life and abstract.
