Memory for a Lamb
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Honolulu Museum of Art
$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 of direct emotional weight — the memory of a lost lamb — suggesting a print that occupies elegiac territory: the animal no longer present, its absence registered as a kind of grief. Sekino's occasional works with memorial or commemorative titles engage with loss in the indirect mode characteristic of Japanese aesthetic sensibility, the named animal becoming a stand-in for more general experiences of impermanence.
Hebizukai
1932
Color woodblock print; oban
1935
Color woodblock print; oban
1964
Acrylic paint and oil pastel with oiled charcoal and ink over an ink and graphite underdrawing on paper
1964
Color lithograph with relief block and hand coloring; edition 35/36
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Memory for a Lamb was created by Jun'ichiro Sekino (関野準一郎).
Memory for a Lamb depicts animals and abstract.
