$500–$4,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Maekawa's early sosaku-hanga works are historically significant. Bold, expressive prints are most valued.
A lake in winter — its surface frozen or dark and still, the surrounding landscape bare and cold — is Senpan's subject in this early twentieth-century print, the season's severity rendered with the direct, unromantic approach that characterizes his best landscape work. Senpan's winter lake compositions have a different quality than his summer outdoor scenes — where the summer prints vibrate with human energy and natural abundance, the winter lake is quiet, self-contained, and slightly austere, the landscape turned inward like a person deep in thought.
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.
Lake in Winter was created by Maekawa Senpan (前川千帆) in 20th century.
Lake in Winter depicts landscapes, rivers & lakes, and winter.
