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 one hundred fifty-seventh iris in Sugiura Kazutoshi's series stands near the culmination of a long artistic project, the hana-shōbu now so thoroughly internalized as subject that the printmaker can approach each new composition with complete freedom — the botanical knowledge so embedded it need not be consciously consulted, the technical mastery so complete it operates below the threshold of deliberate choice. These late entries in the series have a quality of ease that contrasts with the more evident effort of the early numbers, as if the flower and the printmaker had finally reached a mutual understanding.
Iris No 157 — 花菖蒲 No 157 was created by Sugiura Kazutoshi (杉浦和俊).
Iris No 157 — 花菖蒲 No 157 depicts birds & flowers.
