Queen's Coffin
- 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.
The title's ceremonial weight — a coffin fit for a queen — sits in suggestive tension with a subject rendered in the understated vocabulary of Sekino's woodblock work. The print likely explores the boundary between the theatrical and the funereal, two worlds Sekino knew well through his kabuki imagery. Whether literal or allegorical, the composition brings the gravity of death into contact with the pomp of theatrical spectacle.
歌舞伎
Woodblock print
1955
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Queen's Coffin was created by Jun'ichiro Sekino (関野準一郎).
Queen's Coffin depicts kabuki and abstract.
