Summer Evening - 夏の夕
- Date:
- 1920
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
$5,000–$40,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Very limited output makes all prints relatively scarce. The 'Styles of Contemporary Make-up' series is most collected.
"Summer Evening" (Natsu no yu), 1920, captures the particular quality of early evening light in a Japanese summer — the release of heat, the first coolness, the gathering dusk. A young woman in summer yukata is likely the subject, enjoying the evening in a pose that combines leisure and self-awareness. This early work establishes the quality that would distinguish Kobayakawa throughout his career: the sense that his subjects are aware of themselves as modern women inhabiting a modern world, not figures from a timeless past.
Not set
Woodblock print
1/1931
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
1924
Oil on board
Woodblock print
Teradomari no yau
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
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1947
Color woodblock print; oban
March 1933
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Summer Evening - 夏の夕 was created by Kobayakawa Kiyoshi (小早川清) in 1920.
Summer Evening - 夏の夕 was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1920).
Summer Evening - 夏の夕 depicts night scenes and summer.