Chrysanthemums #3
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- robynbuntin
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.
The third entry in Sugiura Kazutoshi's chrysanthemum series (kiku) applies his layered printmaking technique to a flower of enormous symbolic significance in Japan — the chrysanthemum is the Imperial flower, the emblem of the Chrysanthemum Throne, and one of the four noble plants of Japanese aesthetics alongside the plum, orchid, and bamboo. The kiku's complex, multilayered form — hundreds of narrow petals radiating from a central disk — is well-suited to Sugiura's accumulative printing process, each layer of silkscreen ink or gold leaf adding to a compositional richness that mirrors the flower's own physical complexity.
Chrysanthemums #3 was created by Sugiura Kazutoshi (杉浦和俊).
Chrysanthemums #3 depicts birds & flowers and still life.
