Nails (three in series)
- Date:
- 1930
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
$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.
"Nails" (three in series), from 1930, presents a triptych of close-up hand studies focused on the nails as a site of beauty practice — filed, shaped, perhaps lacquered in the modern fashion. The seriality of the three images mirrors the sequential nature of cosmetic ritual and offers the viewer multiple angles on the same intimate subject. Among Kobayakawa's most radical compositional choices, this extreme close-up of the hand approaches abstract territory while remaining anchored in the material reality of the body.
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Woodblock print
1/1931
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
1924
Oil on board
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Nails (three in series) was created by Kobayakawa Kiyoshi (小早川清) in 1930.
Nails (three in series) was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1930).
Nails (three in series) depicts bijin-ga and daily life.
