Nude
by Oda Kazuma
- Date:
- 1932
- Medium:
- Color lithograph on paper; edition 15/20
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
by Oda Kazuma
Key value factors: As self-carved and self-printed works, sosaku-hanga value is tied to the artist's reputation and edition size. Larger formats, earlier editions, and historically significant works command the highest prices.
A female nude, rendered in this 1932 color lithograph (edition 15/20), demonstrates Kazuma's engagement with the Western fine art tradition of the unclothed figure. His study of French printmakers — Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, and others — had equipped him with a vocabulary for the nude that was sympathetic, attentive to light's effect on skin, and free of the clinical distance of academic figure study. The small edition (15/20) suggests this was among his more intimate, carefully controlled works, shared within a community of knowing collectors.
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Nude was created by Oda Kazuma (織田一磨) in 1932.
Nude uses Lithograph, on color lithograph on paper; edition 15/20.
Nude depicts nude.
