Travels with the Master: New York Night T/P (gomazuri sky - black/ultramarine blue-green) (Meishou To No Tabi: Nyu-yoruku)
by Paul Binnie
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
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 trial proof (T/P) of the New York Night composition experiments with a specific sky treatment — [gomazuri](/glossary/gomazuri) (scattered sesame-seed texture) in black and ultramarine blue-green — that would have been one option in the process of establishing the final edition's color state. Trial proofs document the decision-making process of woodblock printing, each one a working moment in the refinement of a composition. The gomazuri sky of this version creates a specific nocturnal texture quite different from a smooth [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) gradation.
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: New York Night T/P (gomazuri sky - black/ultramarine blue-green) (Meishou To No Tabi: Nyu-yoruku) was created by Paul Binnie.
Travels with the Master: New York Night T/P (gomazuri sky - black/ultramarine blue-green) (Meishou To No Tabi: Nyu-yoruku) uses Bokashi, on woodblock print.
Travels with the Master: New York Night T/P (gomazuri sky - black/ultramarine blue-green) (Meishou To No Tabi: Nyu-yoruku) depicts night scenes.
