Bellflower #4
- Date:
- n.d.
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
Key value factors: For living or recently deceased artists, limited edition size and gallery representation drive value. Signed and numbered prints from smaller editions are most desirable.
A single bellflower bloom dominates this intimate composition, its five-petaled form rendered in Sugiura Kazutoshi's signature layered technique combining woodblock carving with silkscreen overprinting. The delicate tubular structure of the flower — known as kikyō in Japanese and long associated with autumn and poetic longing — is built up through successive passes of pigment that lend the petals an almost luminous translucency. Gold-leaf accents catch the surrounding negative space, giving the composition a quiet richness characteristic of Sugiura's mature botanical work.
Bellflower #4 was created by Sugiura Kazutoshi (杉浦和俊) in n.d..
Bellflower #4 depicts birds & flowers and still life.
