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 twenty-second untitled print by Nakajima Kiyoshi. His characteristic visual vocabulary — women in outdoor settings, wind-animated natural elements, soft atmospheric light, the particular colors of each season — is fully present even in works whose titles have not yet been established. The consistency of this visual language across his entire oeuvre makes the untitled works fully legible as expressions of the same artistic vision that animates his titled series.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Untitled (kiyoshi-nakajima) was created by Nakajima Kiyoshi (中島潔).
Untitled (kiyoshi-nakajima) depicts landscapes, figures, and bijin-ga.
