Black hair
- Date:
- Not dated (1931)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
$5,000–$40,000. Common subjects: $5,000–$10,000. Key value factors: Very limited output makes all prints relatively scarce. The 'Styles of Contemporary Make-up' series is most collected.
"Black Hair," from 1931, is a close-focus study of a woman's hair arranged in one of the modern styles of the interwar period — a subject Kobayakawa returned to repeatedly as the women of his prints asserted their modernity through grooming and self-presentation. The deep, luminous blacks he achieved through careful woodblock printing reflect his mastery of the technical demands of depicting dark hair against equally dark or softly graduated grounds. The work belongs to his most celebrated creative period.
Not set
Woodblock print
1/1931
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
1924
Oil on board
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Black hair was created by Kobayakawa Kiyoshi (小早川清) in Not dated (1931).
Black hair was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (Not dated (1931)).
Black hair depicts bijin-ga and portraits.
