Only a Little Hope
- Date:
- 1956
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
$500–$4,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Yamaguchi's contemplative, semi-abstract style has a niche following. Condition and impression quality are key factors.
Only a Little Hope, a color woodblock from 1956, expresses a specific emotional state — the fragility of diminished hope, the preciousness of what remains when most has been lost. The postwar period in Japan was one of physical and spiritual reconstruction, and Yamaguchi's 1956 print carries the emotional register of a society rebuilding its expectations after devastation. The word "only" in the title does the emotional work: not hope in abundance, but its trace, its diminished remainder, which is nonetheless enough to matter.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Only a Little Hope was created by Gen Yamaguchi (山口源) in 1956.
Only a Little Hope depicts figures and abstract.
![[abstract composition with diagonal woodgrain] by Gen Yamaguchi](https://1.api.artsmia.org/800/135949.jpg)
