Travels with the Master: Acropolis - Night (Meishou To No Tabi: Acropolis no yoru)
by Paul Binnie
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Scholten Japanese Art
by Paul Binnie
$2,000–$15,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: As a living artist continuing the shin-hanga tradition, Binnie's prints are investment-quality. Limited editions and larger formats are most valued.
From the Travels with the Master series, this night print of the Acropolis in Athens translates the ancient Greek monument into the visual vocabulary of [shin-hanga](/glossary/shin-hanga) landscape. At night, the Acropolis is illuminated against a dark sky, its Pentelic marble taking on a warm golden glow — a quality that Binnie's [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) gradations would render with the same atmospheric subtlety he brings to Japanese nocturnal scenes. The "Travels with the Master" series consistently finds in non-Japanese subjects the same atmospheric conditions that the Japanese printmaking tradition has always found most compelling.
Woodblock print
Teradomari no yau
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
![Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)" by Kawase Hasui](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/d0960668-1e73-339a-b182-fb995a54bff0/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
1947
Color woodblock print; oban
March 1933
Color woodblock print; oban
Travels with the Master: Acropolis - Night (Meishou To No Tabi: Acropolis no yoru) was created by Paul Binnie.
Travels with the Master: Acropolis - Night (Meishou To No Tabi: Acropolis no yoru) uses Bokashi, on woodblock print.
Travels with the Master: Acropolis - Night (Meishou To No Tabi: Acropolis no yoru) depicts night scenes.
