Iris No 155 — 花菖蒲 No 155
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Typical Price
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.
- Common examples: $100–$400
- Good impressions: $400–$1,500
- Premium/scarce: $1,500–$5,000
Description
The one hundred fifty-fifth iris in Sugiura Kazutoshi's series is positioned near the conclusion of a project that spans more than one hundred and sixty numbered works — each one a color woodblock print combining Sugiura's signature silkscreen overprinting with gold-leaf application. At No. 155, the flower has been contemplated so many times that it exists as much as an artistic idea as a botanical specimen, the accumulated decisions of a decades-long project giving each new iris a kind of compressed history. These late-series works feel less like observations of nature than like distillations of all previous observations.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Iris No 155 — 花菖蒲 No 155 was created by Sugiura Kazutoshi (杉浦和俊).
Iris No 155 — 花菖蒲 No 155 depicts birds & flowers.