Pierrot and His Son
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
$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.
"Pierrot and His Son" brings the commedia dell'arte figure of Pierrot — the sad clown, the lovelorn fool — into Tajima's abstract vocabulary alongside a generational subject: the transmission of character or condition from parent to child. The dual figures may appear as paired abstract forms, their relationship implied by proximity and similarity rather than rendered literally. Tajima's interest in theatrical and literary subject matter was lifelong, even as his visual language remained resolutely abstract.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Pierrot and His Son was created by Hiroyuki Tajima (田島博之).
Pierrot and His Son depicts figures and abstract.
