MI (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
MI — Fruit — a still-life composition depicting fruit in Kimura's contemporary woodblock style. Fruit subjects in Japanese art drew on both the native tradition of seasonal produce representation and the Western still-life genre that became influential in Japanese painting after the Meiji period. Kimura's graphic approach to the fruit subject reduces the organic forms to their essential shapes and colors — the round mass of an apple, the clustered roundness of grapes, the elongated form of a persimmon — in a composition of graphic economy.
