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 eighth cosmos in Sugiura Kazutoshi's numbered series captures the kosumosu — a flower introduced to Japan from Mexico during the Meiji period and quickly adopted as an emblem of autumn — through his characteristic layered printing technique. The cosmos's feathery foliage and simple, open flower head offer Sugiura a compositional lightness that contrasts with the denser arrangements of his iris and peony series. The flower's Japanese name is borrowed directly from the Greek-derived cosmos, appropriate for a bloom that arrived in Japan from abroad and became thoroughly naturalized into Japanese autumn aesthetics.
Cosmos No 8 was created by Sugiura Kazutoshi (杉浦和俊).
Cosmos No 8 depicts birds & flowers, still life, and autumn foliage.
