young girl with a mask
by Kaoru Kawano
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
by Kaoru Kawano
$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.
A young girl wears or holds a traditional Japanese festival mask — perhaps the smiling white face of an okame, or the fierce features of an oni — creating a disjunction between the child's small face and the exaggerated mask she presents to the world. Kawano used the mask subject to explore questions of identity, play, and the relationship between surface appearance and interior self that preoccupied him in his more abstract figurative work. The image is simultaneously charming and slightly unsettling.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
young girl with a mask was created by Kaoru Kawano (川野薫).
young girl with a mask depicts children and daily life.
