$500–$4,000. Common subjects: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Maekawa's early sosaku-hanga works are historically significant. Bold, expressive prints are most valued.
A dancer — "Odoriko," the dancing girl of Japanese performance culture — is captured in mid-movement in this 1953 Senpan print, the figure's body language expressing the momentum and joy of dance with the direct, physical immediacy that characterized his best figurative work. Senpan's dancers are not the stylized, formal figures of classical performance imagery but something more immediate and physically convincing — women whose bodies are genuinely in motion, whose dancing exists as an experience of the body rather than as a decorative pose.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Dancer was created by Maekawa Senpan (前川千帆) in 1953.
Dancer depicts music.
