Lament — 愁
- Date:
- 1980
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
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 second dated 1980 print titled "Lament" (愁), this work, sharing a year with the first, suggests that the subject of melancholy was of particular personal or artistic importance to Takasawa in this period of his late career. Whether the two prints are different states of the same block or entirely separate compositions, they mark the 愁 mood — that particular Japanese register of grief tinged with autumnal feeling — as a significant late-career preoccupation.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Lament — 愁 was created by Takasawa Keiichi (高沢圭一) in 1980.
Lament — 愁 depicts figures, bijin-ga, and autumn foliage.
