Women

A single female figure fills the composition, shown from the shoulders up with bare breasts, her round face rendered with heavy black outlines, a white-painted complexion, pink circular cheeks, a green dot on the forehead, and thick black hair flowing loosely around her shoulders. She is set against a dense red-and-black background of stylized foliage and flower forms, with vertical columns of Japanese characters at the upper right and the artist's pencil signature, "Munakata," the date "1973," and red seal stamps in the lower left margin. Woodblock print on Japanese paper by Shiko Munakata, titled "Women," 1973.