$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.
Three Eyes is one of Kawano's most enigmatic titles, suggesting a composition that moves deliberately beyond naturalistic portraiture into a more symbolic or surrealistic register. Three eyes — one more than the human face possesses — invokes the iconography of divine vision in Buddhist tradition (the third eye of spiritual sight) as well as the visual unsettling of familiar anatomy that characterizes some avant-garde work of the period. The image is likely a face study rendered with an additional eye as a statement about perception, insight, or the uncanny.
Kamakura Daibutsu
1930
Color woodblock print
1950
Color woodblock print
大仏
Woodblock print
1926
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Three Eyes was created by Kaoru Kawano (川野薫).
Three Eyes depicts religious, portraits, and abstract.
