Ducks in Winter
- Date:
- Not set
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
$200–$2,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Kotozuka's Kyoto prints are popular and affordable. Seasonal temple scenes and garden views are most sought after.
Ducks in winter — resting on partly frozen water, or huddled against a bank — provide Kotozuka with a subject that combines his interest in seasonal atmosphere with his attentiveness to animal life. Winter ducks in Japanese woodblock tradition are typically depicted with the same interest in the cold, still quality of the season that defines the landscape context: the water's surface partly iced, the light flat and white, the ducks' dark and russet feathers providing warmth against the cold palette.
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Yuki no Miyajima
1929
Color woodblock print; oban
1932
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Ducks in Winter was created by Kotozuka Eiichi (琴塚英一) in Not set.
Ducks in Winter depicts snow scenes and winter.
