Afternoon
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
$300–$3,000. Common illustrations: $300–$800. Key value factors: Iwata's stylish modern women prints bridge illustration and fine art. Original prints command more than reproductions.
Afternoon is an [oban](/glossary/oban) woodblock print that locates its subject in a specific time of day rather than a specific place or activity. The title suggests the languid hours between midday and evening, when light shifts from overhead to angular and the pace of life slows. Iwata likely renders this temporal quality through warm tones and the posture of his subject, whether figure or landscape. The oban format accommodates the unhurried feeling of the afternoon, its proportions well suited to compositions that breathe rather than compress.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Afternoon was created by Sentaro Iwata (岩田専太郎).
Afternoon depicts figures and bijin-ga.
