Asian Collection Internet Auction
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- wbp
Typical Price
$400–$3,000. Common subjects: $400–$1,000. Key value factors: Kawanishi's Kobe port scenes are his most distinctive and collected subjects.
$400–$3,000. Common subjects: $400–$1,000. Key value factors: Kawanishi's Kobe port scenes are his most distinctive and collected subjects.
Cataloged under an auction title rather than its original Japanese subject heading, this woodblock print by Kawanishi entered the collecting market through an internet sale of Asian art. The loss of original titles is common when prints pass through secondary markets without their original wrappers, albums, or gallery documentation. Kawanishi's known subjects range from Kobe harbor views and urban street scenes to rural landscapes, figure studies, and cultural documentation, making it difficult to identify the specific subject from the auction title alone. The print represents one of many works by sosaku-hanga artists that circulate internationally through online platforms, their auction provenance replacing the gallery or publisher provenance that originally accompanied them.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Asian Collection Internet Auction was created by Hide Kawanishi (川西英).
Asian Collection Internet Auction depicts landscapes.
