Styles of Contemporary Make-up: no. 4, Pupil of the Eye (Kindaijisesho no uchi: Hitomi)
- Date:
- 1931
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
$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.
"Styles of Contemporary Make-up: no. 4, Pupil of the Eye" (Kindaijisesho no uchi: Hitomi), from 1931, is the fourth design in Kobayakawa's celebrated series, bringing the close-focus eye study into dialogue with its companions as part of a systematic exploration of the modern woman's face. The pupil — hitomi — is the compositional and conceptual center of the print, that dark circle which is simultaneously anatomical fact, reflective mirror, and poetic trope. Its place in the series as the fourth image suggests a progression from surface to depth, from makeup to what lies beneath it.
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Woodblock print
1/1931
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
1924
Oil on board
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Styles of Contemporary Make-up: no. 4, Pupil of the Eye (Kindaijisesho no uchi: Hitomi) was created by Kobayakawa Kiyoshi (小早川清) in 1931.
Styles of Contemporary Make-up: no. 4, Pupil of the Eye (Kindaijisesho no uchi: Hitomi) was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1931).
Styles of Contemporary Make-up: no. 4, Pupil of the Eye (Kindaijisesho no uchi: Hitomi) depicts bijin-ga and portraits.
