Bird
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Typical Price
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.
- Common examples: $100–$500
- Good impressions: $500–$2,000
- Premium/scarce: $2,000–$10,000
Description
A bird — the subject simplified to the essential category that encompassed Kimura's greatest sustained interest as a printmaker. Across his career, Kimura returned to bird subjects again and again, exploring them in multiple species, poses, seasons, and colorways, finding in avian form an inexhaustible source of graphic exploration. This print may depict a specific species or may present a more generalized bird form — an abstracted bird essence rather than a portrait of a particular species.
