A Tomb with Wings
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
$500–$6,000. Common subjects: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Sekino's prolific output keeps prices accessible. Portrait prints are most collected.
A title with surrealist overtones — the tomb's conventional associations with finality augmented by the addition of wings that suggest flight, transformation, or escape. Sekino's occasional forays into imagery with symbolic or allegorical dimensions reflect the influence of Western surrealism on the Japanese avant-garde of the mid-century, though his treatment typically grounds the strange in a graphic directness that prevents it from becoming purely literary.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
A Tomb with Wings was created by Jun'ichiro Sekino (関野準一郎).
A Tomb with Wings depicts mythology and abstract.
