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 1974 untitled woodblock print predates many of the numbered works that form the bulk of Funasaka's catalog, placing it in a transitional period when his geometric vocabulary was still taking its mature form. The absence of both title and catalog number may indicate an experimental work created outside the formal sequence, one that explored possibilities the artist chose not to integrate into the numbered series. Alternatively, the titling information may simply have been lost over the decades since the print's creation. The 1974 date positions the work just before the "My Space and My Dimension" series that began in 1975, suggesting it may share formal concerns with those explicitly named investigations of geometric space. The print offers a glimpse into Funasaka's process at a moment when his artistic identity was consolidating around the geometric abstraction that would define his legacy.
Untitled was created by Yoshisuke Funasaka (舩坂芳助) in 1974.
Untitled depicts abstract.
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