$500–$4,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Kaneko's vivid, pop-influenced prints have a wide international following. Colorful figure compositions are most popular.
White Morning, edition 20 of 200 from 2005, evokes the particular luminosity of Japanese mornings in winter or early spring, when frost or mist fills the air with a white diffusion that seems to dissolve solid forms into atmosphere. White as a chromatic subject presents a paradox for a printmaker whose strengths lie in bold color contrast: Kaneko likely approaches white morning by modulating the softest end of his palette — pale blues, warm grays, the faintest yellows — to suggest the quality of light rather than its absence.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
White Morning was created by Kunio Kaneko (金子國義) in 20/200, 2005.
White Morning depicts landscapes, winter, and abstract.
