$500–$4,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Maeda Masao's atmospheric mountain and landscape prints have a dedicated following among sosaku-hanga collectors.
A child in snow — a small figure playing or walking through a winter landscape — is rendered in Maeda Masao's bold sosaku-hanga graphic manner, the child's bundled form against the white expanse of the snow creating a composition of stark simplicity and warmth. Figure subjects in snow were a consistent theme in Japanese woodblock printmaking, the child providing a human scale that activated the emotional possibilities of the winter setting. Maeda's self-carved direct line work gives the composition a graphic energy quite different from the softer atmospheric effects of shin-hanga snow scenes.
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.
Child in snow was created by Maeda Masao (前田政雄).
Child in snow depicts snow scenes and children.
