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-third untitled work by Nakajima Kiyoshi. His printmaking practice demonstrates a commitment to the woodblock medium's traditional strengths — precision of line, richness of pigment, the physicality of ink on paper — while expanding its expressive range to encompass the soft atmospheric effects more commonly associated with painting. This expansion of the woodblock's expressive possibilities, without abandoning its fundamental technical character, represents his most significant technical contribution to the medium.
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.
