Brown Paper (Chairo no kami)
- Date:
- 1974
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print; edition 2/50
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
$500–$5,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Tajima's powerful abstract prints have appeal among both Japanese print and modern art collectors.
"Brown Paper" (Chairo no kami), 1974, edition 2 of 50, takes the material of Tajima's medium — paper — as its explicit subject, creating a self-referential work in which warm browns and textural layering evoke the washi ground itself. The flat, earthen palette and minimal compositional incident suggest a meditation on material and surface rather than a conventional subject. As an artist who was deeply engaged with the expressive properties of Japanese paper, Tajima here makes that engagement visible.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Brown Paper (Chairo no kami) was created by Hiroyuki Tajima (田島博之) in 1974.
Brown Paper (Chairo no kami) depicts abstract.
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