Portrait of Mrs. Onchi (Nobuo)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Honolulu Museum of Art
Typical Price
- Fine signed portrait or self-portrait in excellent condition: $5,000–$25,000
"Portrait of Mrs. Onchi (Nobuo)" is a domestic portrait of the artist's wife — among the most intimate of his many portrait subjects. Portraits of family members in Onchi's work carry a different emotional register than his public cultural portraits: more private in the quality of observation, more direct in their acknowledgment of an ongoing relationship between artist and subject. The portrait of a wife is also, in the [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga) context, a declaration of the private domestic world as worthy of the same serious artistic attention as public cultural figures.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Portrait of Mrs. Onchi (Nobuo) was created by Onchi Koshiro (恩地孝四郎).
Portrait of Mrs. Onchi (Nobuo) depicts portraits.
