Untitled (kiyoshi-nakajima)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Ohmi Gallery
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-ninth untitled work by Nakajima Kiyoshi. Among the qualities that distinguish his printmaking from the broader Showa-era production is the consistency of his emotional register: a nostalgic warmth toward the natural world and toward the domestic and rural settings that define Japanese furusato aesthetics, combined with a technical sensitivity to atmospheric conditions that would be more at home in Western Impressionism than in the Japanese woodblock tradition. This cross-cultural synthesis is characteristic of his era and his artistic personality.
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, village scenes, and abstract.
