$500–$4,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Kawano's early death at 49 limits her output. Her dreamlike figure prints are most sought after.
A building stands in winter, its eaves heavy with snow, its windows dark against the pale cold surrounding it. Winter Mansion is among Kawano's architectural subjects — unusual in a body of work dominated by figures and flowers — and the seasonal silence of a snow-covered building carries the contemplative weight of a season spent in waiting and inwardness. The color woodblock format allowed him to render the blue shadows in snow and the warmth of interior light with a specificity unavailable in monochrome printing.
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Yuki no Miyajima
1929
Color woodblock print; oban
1932
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Winter Mansion was created by Kaoru Kawano (川野薫) in n.d..
Winter Mansion depicts snow scenes, architecture, and winter.
