Sea Child
- Date:
- 1948
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
- Dimensions:
- 37 × 28.4 cm
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Minneapolis Institute 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 1948 woodblock in ink and color on paper depicting a child by the sea — one of Sekino's earliest treatments of the childhood-at-the-coast subject that would also appear in his "Child of the Sea" from 1940. The 1948 version, made in the immediate postwar period, carries a different emotional charge than the prewar work: the sea still present as a source of wonder and freedom, but now also a space associated with the war's losses.
1940
Woodblock print
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Color woodblock print; oban
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Color woodblock print; oban
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Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Sea Child was created by Jun'ichiro Sekino (関野準一郎) in 1948.
Sea Child depicts seascapes and children.
Sea Child measures 37 × 28.4 cm.
