Floating Shadow (Hyoei) Yellow
- Date:
- 1964
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print; edition 3/20
- 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.
"Floating Shadow (Hyoei) Yellow," 1964, edition 3 of 20, captures one of Tajima's recurring preoccupations: the shadow as presence rather than absence, the cast mark of something that exists just out of the frame. The yellow ground gives the composition warmth and luminosity, against which the "floating" shadows drift without weight or attachment. Hyoei in Japanese can suggest an apparition or drifting figure, lending the print an eerie atmospheric quality.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Floating Shadow (Hyoei) Yellow was created by Hiroyuki Tajima (田島博之) in 1964.
Floating Shadow (Hyoei) Yellow depicts abstract.
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