Key value factors: As self-carved and self-printed works, sosaku-hanga value is tied to the artist's reputation and edition size. Larger formats, earlier editions, and historically significant works command the highest prices.
This fourth untitled woodblock print by Okamoto Yoshimi completes a group of unnamed works that collectively represent a significant unnamed territory within the artist's catalog. Four untitled compositions out of twenty-three total works constitutes a meaningful proportion, suggesting that the boundary between titled and untitled in Okamoto's practice carries real significance rather than reflecting mere administrative oversight. The print likely shares the material qualities of Okamoto's titled works, with the woodblock surface carrying the same evidence of carving, inking, and pressing that gives all hand-printed images their distinctive character. The fourth untitled work, furthest from the first in the catalog sequence, may represent the most removed from the thematic concerns of Okamoto's named series, occupying creative territory that the "First Love," "Imayo," and atmospheric titles do not map.
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.
Untitled (okamoto-yoshimi) was created by Okamoto Yoshimi (岡本吉実).
Untitled (okamoto-yoshimi) depicts landscapes and abstract.
