Fruit
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- wbp
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
Fruit — a still-life composition depicting the forms of ripe fruit in Kimura's contemporary woodblock style. Fruit subjects allowed Kimura to engage with the Japanese tradition of seasonal produce representation through a graphic language that emphasized form and color over botanical specificity. The round, organic forms of fruit — apples, persimmons, grapes, pomegranates — were subjects that lent themselves naturally to the flat, bold color areas of contemporary woodblock printing, their simple geometric forms rendered in the vivid colors of the harvest season.
