Peonies
by Oda Kazuma
- Date:
- 1924
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
- Dimensions:
- 26 × 38.9 cm
- Source:
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
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.
Peonies — the queen of Chinese and Japanese ornamental flowers, prized since the Tang dynasty for their enormous, ruffled blooms and associated with wealth, honor, and prosperity — are rendered in this 1924 woodblock print in ink and color on paper. Kazuma brings to the peony his characteristic combination of Western floral painting sensibility and Japanese printmaking technique: the flowers built up through the woodblock's characteristic flat color areas rather than brushed freely, yet maintaining the lush, open character of the full-blown peony in its brief moment of perfection.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Peonies was created by Oda Kazuma (織田一磨) in 1924.
Peonies depicts birds & flowers and still life.
Peonies measures 26 × 38.9 cm.
