Sketch for the print "View of Mount Bandai"
- Date:
- c. 1941
- Medium:
- Watercolor and pencil sketch (woodblock print: 1962.247)
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
$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 preparatory sketch for the woodblock print "View of Mount Bandai" — made around 1941 in watercolor and pencil — captures the mountain and its surrounding landscape in the more immediate, exploratory medium that preceded the more labor-intensive woodblock version. The sketch's medium allows for a freedom of observation and a directness of mark-making that the woodblock could not replicate, and in some respects the sketch communicates the mountain's character more immediately than the finished print. This work is both a document of Senpan's process and a significant work in its own right.
Wakasa Kugushiko
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Color woodblock print; oban
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1934
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n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Sketch for the print "View of Mount Bandai" was created by Maekawa Senpan (前川千帆) in c. 1941.
Sketch for the print "View of Mount Bandai" depicts landscapes.
