View of Moscow
- Date:
- c. 1917
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
$2,000–$15,000+. Common subjects: $2,000–$5,000. Key value factors: As the founder of sosaku-hanga, Yamamoto's prints carry great historical significance. His earliest works are the most valued.
Created around 1917, this color woodblock print offers a panoramic perspective on Moscow, likely viewed from an elevated vantage point that reveals the city's distinctive skyline of domes and towers. The color printing adds dimension to the urban landscape, with pigment choices that evoke the particular quality of northern light over the Russian capital. Yamamoto's Moscow views, produced during his wartime travels, constitute a rare record of a Japanese artist engaging with Russian urban space through the woodblock medium. The architectural mass of the city is organized into rhythmic patterns of vertical and horizontal forms, demonstrating how Yamamoto's training in Japanese compositional principles could accommodate radically different subject matter without losing its structural integrity.
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n.d.
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Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
View of Moscow was created by Kanae Yamamoto (山本鼎) in c. 1917.
View of Moscow depicts landscapes.
