$500–$4,000. Common subjects: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Kawano's early death at 49 limits her output. Her dreamlike figure prints are most sought after.
Short Hair (Tanpotsu) in the oban format presents a female figure defined as much by her unconventionally brief coiffure as by any other quality. The short-haired woman was a somewhat modern subject in mid-century Japanese art, associated with the new postwar freedoms of Japanese women and a loosening of traditional associations between long hair and feminine virtue. Kawano renders the figure with his characteristic bold outline, and the tanpotsu designation may indicate the print's elongated compositional format.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Short Hair (Tanpotsu)- Oban was created by Kaoru Kawano (川野薫).
Short Hair (Tanpotsu)- Oban depicts figures, bijin-ga, and portraits.
