Waiting Time (Matsutoki)
by Paul Binnie
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Scholten Japanese Art
by Paul Binnie
$2,000–$15,000. Common subjects: $2,000–$4,000. 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.
"Waiting Time" (Matsutoki) evokes the experience of waiting — the specific quality of suspended time when one is between events, neither actively engaged nor at rest. In [bijin-ga](/glossary/bijin-ga), the waiting woman is a classical subject loaded with implication: who is she waiting for, what will the arrival or non-arrival of that person mean, what does the quality of her waiting tell us about the relationship? Binnie's treatment of this fraught moment would deploy the atmospheric subtlety of his woodblock work to suggest the emotional texture of suspension and anticipation.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Waiting Time (Matsutoki) was created by Paul Binnie.
Waiting Time (Matsutoki) depicts figures and bijin-ga.
